The authors suggest that it is related to sleep stage and serotonin acting at one type of serotonin receptor in the dentate gyrus. The results are significant because they suggest new insight into how ...

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

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 ...

Pulling the occasional all-nighter can seem like the only choice when you're overwhelmed, but sacrificing sleep causes more problems than it solves. The longer you go without sleep, the more your ...

Getting enough sleep is easier said than done — that's where napping comes in handy. Whether you're looking to catch up on rest after a sleepless night or relax in the afternoon, napping is an ...

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.) ...

“Everyone has a specific threshold for insomnia, and sometimes precipitating factors can break through the threshold and you can’t sleep. The stressors could be personal ...