Discover why your brain benefits more from sleep than coffee. A strategic afternoon nap outperforms caffeine for memory, ...

A person’s sleep needs are highly individual, Holliday-Bell says. If you feel refreshed and ready for the day after nine ...

Findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, "open the door to a deeper understanding of lucid dreaming as an ...

Scientists have mapped the brain's electrical activity during lucid dreaming, offering unprecedented insights into this ...

A power nap has long been touted as a magic reset button for the brain—but what if you didn’t need to sleep at all to feel ...

In the quiet hours of the night, while your body rests, your brain is busy. It's sorting through the day’s moments, filing some away as lasting memories, and brushing off others. Scientists have long ...

KyoungBin "Kevin" Im, MD, MS, associate clinical professor and sports psychiatry services medical director at UC Irvine ...

Researchers may have found a way to get the benefits of sleep through artificial naps, but the research is far from complete.

Shorter slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep were associated with decreased volume in Alzheimer disease-vulnerable brain regions.

It's no secret that a good night's sleep is key to a healthy brain. However, the full extent of the importance of rest on our ...

What if we didn't need sleep to dream? Well, scientists may have found a way to hack those benefits even when you're awake.

On an Apple Watch, "core sleep" is another name for light sleep, which scientists also call stages N1-N2. It is not a type of ...