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The idea that attention spans can "break" has been spreading like wildfire across TikTok, podcasts and think pieces—framing focus as something fragile, like glass. But experts say the reality is more ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration ...

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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Early in the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. announced in The ...

The economics writer Kyla Scanlon on how attention has come to shape politics, our economy, Gen Z and more. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the ...

It sounds like the tagline of a human resources email or a dispatch from your local high school principal, but President Donald Trump‘s “thank you for your attention to this matter” has become his ...

Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of ...

It’s a weirdly stiff expression. It carries the bureaucratic heft of an HR email about which snacks are now forbidden in the break room, or that of a lawyer signing off an email about a pressing ...