Sleep strips away consciousness, but it does not shut the brain down. PET imaging of 37 volunteers has shown that regional ...

The key to keeping your wits about you as you age may lie in shut-eye during midlife. A study found that people over 60 who didn’t get enough slow-wave sleep — the third stage in the human sleep cycle ...

If you've been looking for a sign to work on your sleep hygiene, this is it. A new study suggests that a particular wave of sleep, called slow-wave sleep, plays an integral role in staving off ...

Summary: Researchers dismantled the classic assumption that a person’s ability to easily fall asleep after a cup of coffee means the caffeine is not affecting them. Utilizing quantitative ...

It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is, was previously unknown. How do permanent ...

Less slow-wave sleep over time raised the risk of incident dementia, prospective data showed. Each percentage decrease in slow-wave sleep per year in people 60 and older was tied to a 27% increase in ...

By inducing specific patterns of activity in small portions of the brain in awake mice, researchers have triggered a ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Neurology, researchers investigated whether slow-wave sleep (SWS) proportions reduced as individuals aged and whether intra-individual decreases were linked to ...

Mice seemed to reap some of the benefits of sleep by having their brain activity stimulated while they were awake, and the researchers plan to test the approach on people ...