The study, led by UTSA psychology professor Itamar Lerner, involves collaboration with first responders, such as firefighters ...

REM sleep goes even deeper into brain recovery, dreaming and processing memories and emotions. This is the sleep stage in ...

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

represents your deepest non-REM sleep state. This critical restoration period features distinctive delta waves on brain monitoring. The recent study identified this phase as particularly important ...

Scientists think that deep sleep and rapid eye movement (or REM) sleep are particularly influential when it comes to brain health and dementia risk. A study published last month on people with ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)—when the soft tissues in the throat collapse and block the airway—especially correlates to ...

When in doubt, ask an expert. Dr. Michael Breus, PhD, simplifies and differentiates REM sleep vs. deep sleep for us. REM ...

To recreate the effect of sleep, without actually sleeping, the team of researchers used low-frequency electrical pulses that ...

In the stillness of the night, when the body should lie calm in sleep, something else may be happening beneath the surface.

Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s ...