As most people who have pulled an all-nighter will agree, lost sleep can leave us feeling foggy and far from our best. In ...

Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine found that individuals who spend less time in slow-wave and rapid eye movement ...

Researchers put forward a comprehensive model outlining the conditions that may give rise to the vivid mental phenomena that ...

However, a new study of European jackdaws shows that this strategy has its limits: when sleep-deprived, these clever, social ...

Birds, unlike humans, can sleep deeply with both halves of their brains (symmetrically) or with one half sleeping lighter than the other (asymmetrically). • Study of European jackdaws led by an ...

Turns out, I had been napping wrong my entire life.

A new study from McGill University has found that a simple blood test could help predict the risk of developing dementia ...

Not getting enough of deeper stages of sleep raises the risk of brain deterioration associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a ...

“Our findings provide preliminary evidence that reduced neuroactivity during sleep may contribute to brain atrophy, thereby ...

New research reveals that lower proportions of specific sleep stages are associated with reduced brain volume in regions ...