This release examines emerging trends in nighttime weight management and the growing discussion surrounding blue light ...

New research reveals how synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex can strengthen during sleep, offering insight into how ...

Sleeping deeply into the afternoon after an all-nighter or a late night out is one way the body repays its sleep debt. The ...

That theory posits that, if memories were shrubs, the non-REM phase of sleep helps them grow taller and stronger. The REM ...

While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

Cholinergic modulation of neural networks supports sequential and complementary roles for NREM and REM states in memory ...

How do animals bounce back from sleep deprivation? Scientists found a subset of neurons in the mouse thalamus that repay this ...

A newly identified brain circuit in mice may explain why we sleep longer and deeper after being sleep deprived – and lead to ...

Firstly, during NREM sleep, the researches saw “statistically significant reductions in power in the delta, theta and alpha frequency bands,” in the group who had consumed caffeine.

A drug used to treat insomnia has protected mice against the buildup of the tau protein found to clump abnormally in ...

Most parasomnias are tied to specific points in the sleep cycle, and sleepwalking occurs during deep, non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep, usually in stage 3, the period devoted to the body’s heaviest ...