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 ...

Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, ...

Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing these ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD As we sleep, our brain moves through four stages and two phases: non-rapid eye movement ...

I probably would struggle to sleep, to be honest.” Woldbye later told the Financial Times that he had gone to bed at 11pm before the fire started. But would it have been so bad if he had handed ...

The team first trained five monkeys on a task evaluating image orientations and tested them twice, with a 30-minute gap in which they either had non-REM sleep or merely rested. The monkeys that ...

This reorganization, observed during non-REM sleep, involved a dynamic change in the neurons representing reward locations—some stopped firing while others became active. These changes not only ...

If you’ve ever struggled with sleep (read: if you’re a human), you can probably rattle off at least a few pieces of sage sleep advice: Quit the caffeine in the evening. Turn your bedroom into ...

Au contraire, sleepy Pierre. You can get a solid eight hours and still be woefully lacking in “deep sleep” (the most important restorative rest) and REM sleep (most important for memory.) ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng ...