But how do sleep cycles work? To find out, I took part in a polysomnography. This is a gold standard sleep study that helps ...

Using closed-loop auditory stimulation (CLAS), the participants were played auditory stimulation during REM sleep in six second bursts on and off. The experts found that they were able to ...

Scientists have long recognized the brain's need for energy, but new research from the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown ...

What if we could obtain the memory, learning and perception benefits of “power naps” without actually sleeping?

Our brain uses light sleep to transition between slow-wave sleep, or deep sleep, and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, which is the stage in which we dream. Experts say about 50% of your night ...

Deep sleep plays an important role in learning and memory storage, "by facilitating a process called 'memory consolidation,' ...

Sleep disturbances may accelerate neurodegeneration, but whether they cause or result from disease remains unclear. Improving ...