For many high-performing adults, sleep is evaluated almost entirely by quantity: How many hours did you get? But there is another part of sleep that deserves more attention: when you sleep, and how consistently your body knows when sleep is supposed to occur. A new study published in Translational Psychiatry offers an interesting look at what happens when circadian rhythms are deliberately disrupted. Healthy participants underwent 15 days of experimentally induced circadian d

For many professionals, the workday no longer has a clear ending. You may leave the office, close the laptop, or finish the last scheduled meeting, but work remains accessible. Email is on your phone. A colleague can reach you instantly. Tomorrow's problems are already waiting in an inbox you can check from bed. None of this necessarily feels dramatic. Checking one email at 8:30 PM may take only two minutes, and answering a quick message while watching television hardly feels

One of the easiest ways to miss OCD is to ask the right question at the wrong level. “Do you check things repeatedly?” “Do you worry about contamination?” “Do you have intrusive thoughts?” Those are reasonable questions. But none of them, by itself, tells us whether someone has OCD. The more revealing question is often: What happens next? A person has an intrusive thought. What do they do with it? Do they dismiss it and continue with their day, or do they begin reviewing, res