Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a method that allows the increased ...

Chronic stress, depression, cardiovascular disease, fragmented sleep, and aging are all associated with a higher risk of dementia, but scientists have not yet discovered exactly why. Now, a review ...

Turning our clocks ahead next weekend, will rob us all of an hour – as we are sleeping. With World Sleep Day coming up on Friday (March 13), and in honor of Brain Awareness Week that starts Monday ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

On my last day at work a few years back, they gave me a going-away party, and it turned into something more like a roast. One of the top leaders told a story I’d sort of hoped he’d forgotten. The ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists discovered that these attention lapses coincide with waves of fluid washing ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain fill your slumber with dreams, it also goes right on solving the problems ...

The frustrating cycle of hitting snooze and struggling through mornings despite adequate sleep duration affects millions of Americans. This disconnect between sleep quantity and morning alertness has ...

I went through a period of waking up at 3 a.m. most nights and it felt nearly impossible to fall asleep again. I tried everything from breath techniques designed to calm my nervous system, to getting ...

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