# Summer days: research culture and the neuroscience of taking a break

**Authors:** Tara L Spires-Jones

PMC · DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae266 · Brain Communications · 2024-09-02

## TL;DR

The paper explores the importance of taking breaks and maintaining work-life balance, supported by neuroscience insights.

## Contribution

It highlights the benefits of disconnecting from work through vacation and neuroscience evidence.

## Key findings

- Taking a vacation without a computer can improve mental well-being.
- Neuroscience supports the need for work-life balance to maintain productivity and health.

## Abstract

Our editor discusses taking a vacation without a computer and some neuroscience evidence supporting the need for work–life balance.

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## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** sleep deficits (MESH:D012893), seizures (MESH:D012640), cognitive decline (MESH:D003072), parkinsonism (MESH:D010302), brain diseases (MESH:D001927)

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