The Brain's Cleaning Shift Only Runs at Night During deep sleep, specifically the slow-wave stage that dominates the first ...

A research team in Freiburg has investigated how random sounds played during sleep affect the consolidation of new memories. The results show that non-targeted acoustic stimuli disrupt deep sleep. As ...

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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 ...

When you consistently shortchange your sleep or experience poor sleep quality, you're essentially preventing your brain from ...

Poor sleep quality has been linked to cognitive decline, neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease in older adults. A new ...

Alzheimer’s disease slowly damages memory, thinking and the ability to manage everyday life. Scientists have spent decades ...

Everyone wakes up several times a night, most often at the end of a sleep cycle. Good sleepers don't remember it, while others struggle to drift back to sleep. To understand this scenario, let's look ...

Did you hear about the new brain imaging study by researchers at Yale University? It showed that people who meditate regularly are able to switch off parts of the brain associated with anxiety, ...

When it comes to getting the most restful sleep overall, and getting back to sleep in a timely manner, not all wake-ups are equal.

Learn how MIT researchers uncovered how our brains try to clean themselves mid-day, costing us attention in the process. After a sleepless night, those foggy, drifting moments may be more than fatigue ...