by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Oct 12, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Capacity Report, Sleep
A sleep score has become a kind of morning weather report. You wake up, look down, and get a number that seems to explain the day before the day has even started. Eighty-seven: promising. Fifty-nine: concerning. The number may shape how you interpret your energy, your...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 28, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Question of the week, Sleep
Most of us know the bargain: sleep less during the week, sleep late on Saturday, maybe linger in bed Sunday morning, and begin again. It’s such a familiar arrangement that we rarely stop to ask what the extra weekend sleep is supposed to repair. Does it simply make us...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 28, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Health and Wellness, Question of the week
We tend to put hearing in its own little box. You hear well, or you don’t. If you don’t, there are devices that make things louder. End of story. But hearing is not just about volume. It is how we follow a joke across a crowded dinner table, catch a quiet aside in a...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 28, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Question of the week, Social Connection
We tend to talk about loneliness as if it belongs in the same category as a bad mood. You feel lonely. You call a friend. You join something. Problem solved. But I wondered whether that framing misses something bigger. If loneliness persists, does it merely make life...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 28, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Question of the week, Sleep
Most of us know the arrangement. The week gets busy. Bedtime moves later. The alarm still goes off. Then Saturday arrives, and we sleep until our bodies decide they’re done. That extra sleep feels like repayment. Maybe it is. But I wondered whether “catching up” means...
by Teralyn Sell, PhD | Sep 28, 2026 | BRAIN HEALTH, Movement, Question of the week
“Go take a walk and clear your head.” It’s one of those pieces of advice that can sound almost too obvious to question. You’re stuck on a decision, irritated after a meeting, circling the same thought for the fifteenth time. So you leave the desk, walk around the...
