REM sleep is essential for short-term resilience and long-term health. Experts share tips for the best way to get more of ...

Which sleep stage is most important for learning: REM or non-REM? Does sleep improve learning by enhancing skills while people snooze, or by cementing those skills in the brain so that they're less ...

Sleep Cycles: One rapid eye movement (REM) stage and three non-REM stages that altogether last about 90 to 120 minutes Benefits: Physical and mental recuperation and memory consolidation Disorders: ...

Any sleep tracker will show you that slumber is far from a passive affair. And no stage of sleep demonstrates that better than rapid eye movement, or REM, commonly called dream sleep. “It’s also ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We have evolved a sleep cycle that goes from non-REM to REM sleep and back again, but until now, the biological function of this oscillation was ...

Today’s column may make you sleepy — and that could be a good thing! For this month’s Healthy Actions column, our expert is Dr. Eileen Wong, University Hospitals East Region Sleep Lab Medical Director ...

Mammalian sleep comprises rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM (NREM) sleep. To functionally isolate from the complex mixture of neurons populating the brainstem pons those involved in switching ...

Although we know sleep is essential to our physical and mental well-being, it remains an incredibly enigmatic behavior, scientifically speaking. Researchers at the University of Michigan, however, may ...