A joint study has evaluated the usability of a compact EEG device (BrainStatus) developed by Bittium Biosignals from Oulu ...

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A new study finds that entering N2 sleep—a deep phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep—may help lead to more “eureka” ...

Then you definitely need to sleep on it, a new study says. People are more likely to have sudden “eureka” moments on nagging ...

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Upon waking, all groups showed an improvement in their performance, but 85.7% of those who achieved the N2 sleep phase had their insight moment. In contrast, 55.5% of those who stayed awake and 63.6% ...

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

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A 2023 Sleep Foundation survey found that 94% of US adults consume caffeinated beverages, and 64% drink them daily. Of those, 40% said they didn’t think it affected their sleep. What do you think?

Caffeine shifts brain activity during sleep by increasing EEG complexity and reducing long-range temporal correlations, particularly in non-REM (NREM) sleep. These changes reflect a movement ...

Dreamers deep in REM sleep have no sense of control over factors like thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, but those in lucid dreaming states do. Demirel also linked gamma waves with lucid dreaming.