During sleep, especially during a stage called REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, your brain sorts through the memories you made ...

With long days comes sleepless nights and it can have a big effect on our wellbeing. Here, sleep expert, Miranda Levy, delves ...

Cholinergic modulation of neural networks supports sequential and complementary roles for NREM and REM states in memory ...

This can have a big effect on the amount of sleep we get. One study monitored the sleep of 188 participants in the lab on ...

That theory posits that, if memories were shrubs, the non-REM phase of sleep helps them grow taller and stronger. The REM ...

In OSA, oxygen desaturation respiratory events during REM sleep occur more often in Black adults, especially Black women, than in White adults.

Study: significant changes in sleep metrics—specifically, reduced REM sleep and increased light sleep—only occurred when ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a new theory on the biological function of sleep. Their model suggests ...

Although we know sleep is essential to our physical and mental well-being, it remains an incredibly enigmatic behavior, ...

But this turned out to be a misconception that hasn’t allowed us “to capture the disease accurately,” Christine Won, MD, ...

A newly identified brain circuit in mice may explain why we sleep longer and deeper after being sleep deprived – and lead to ...

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first study to use wearable devices to assess how inflammation and symptoms in ...