Scientists have discovered that freedivers who plunge deep underwater develop incredible mental adaptations that protect ...

Holding your breath may be more than just a good party trick. While it sounds like the last thing you’d want to do to your brain, new research suggests that regularly depriving it of oxygen could come ...

Freedivers repeatedly experience hypoxia while holding their breath underwater. (Matt Porteous/Stone RF/Getty Images) It's extremely not very good for your brain to deprive it of oxygen. Starved of ...