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

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

Yet greater awareness of sleep deprivation’s consequences hasn’t translated into a better-rested populace. Data from the CDC ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You probably just didn’t sleep well or properly fuel yourself, or you’re on your period or coming down with a virus. Or maybe ...

Upon waking, all groups showed an improvement in their performance, but 85.7% of those who achieved the N2 sleep phase had their insight moment. In contrast, 55.5% of those who stayed awake and 63.6% ...