Two-thirds of women say menopause significantly impacts their work performance, yet most hide their symptoms due to ...

Hormonal imbalances — including testosterone, thyroid, cortisol, and insulin — can significantly affect your cognitive function and contribute to brain fog. Blood tests can help identify underlying ...

Extremely high fat levels in the blood from familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) typically causes symptoms like abdominal pain and an inflamed pancreas (pancreatitis), but FCS can also affect the ...

If you’ve been feeling unfocused, forgetful, or mentally drained, you might be experiencing brain fog—a cluster of symptoms like fatigue, confusion, and difficulty concentrating that can disrupt daily ...

A new review presented at The Menopause Society’s annual meeting breaks down the changes that happen in the brain during menopause. These adaptations could be behind the brain fog that some women ...

Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images) Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. But the transition affects far more than reproductive health: it ...

Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They discovered widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive ...

Even though many years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of infection with SARS-CoV-2 are not completely understood. This is especially true for Long COVID, a chronic ...

Even though many years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of infection with SARS-CoV-2 are not completely understood. This is especially true for Long COVID, a chronic ...

Chronic stress — which tends to last several weeks or more — takes a major toll on the body. Not only can it manifest as headaches, fatigue, digestive issues and sleep problems, it can accelerate the ...

Having your head in the clouds is often linked to lovesickness, but it’s also the best way to describe the fuzzy, floaty feeling of mental sluggishness-- when your brain refuses to process thoughts ...

Maria Pertl receives research funding from the Irish Cancer Society and the National Cancer Control Programme. She is a committee member of the Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Lisa Mellon ...