Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that ...

New research suggests a unique form of meditation can affect brain regions linked to emotional regulation and memory, ...

Your circadian rhythm affects several systems in your body, including digestion, temperature regulation, and hormone release. While your brain sets your circadian rhythm, external factors can also ...

Circadian rhythms are governed by a master clock, a group of neurons called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, located in a region of the brain called the hypothalamus. This master clock translates cues ...

Here’s how the story may go: You wake up in the morning ready to tackle the day. You’re in a groove. You’re getting things ...

The authors “give mechanistic insight for how time-of-day difference in blood-brain barrier permeability comes to be,” says Robert Dallmann, a circadian biologist and pharmacologist at University of ...

“We knew that the liver has its own circadian rhythm that is independent of the central clock in our brain,” said Liliana Mancio-Silva, a parasitologist at the Pasteur Institute. “We wanted to know ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human ...