"Usually when you are being absentminded, it's that your conscious processing is focused on something other than the task at hand; you are thinking about something else." When you are thinking ...

A new study suggests that a specific brain function protects us from these bouts of absentminded driving—but that it completely breaks down while texting. In 2014, over 3,000 people were killed ...

Distracted by daily tasks and critical goals, most entrepreneurs let a lot of seemingly unimportant issues slip through the cracks. Business owners often make the mistake of overlooking small ...

By early November, he was unable to walk in a straight line. He also noticed that he was becoming increasingly absentminded and had to give up teaching by the end of the month because of poor ...

If you are frequently losing train of thoughts or often becoming sidetracked, this maybe a sign of a condition known as "silent stroke" a major cause of dementia and stroke, claims a study ...

EEG revealed low-voltage background activity, with intermittent rhythmic slowing in the frontotemporal regions. No sharp- and slow-wave complexes were seen. Fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery ...

With artwork by famed cartoonist and children's author Syd Hoff, this advertisement features the tale of an absentminded professor who teeters on the edge of getting fired by his university's ...