As every bodybuilder knows, a deep, restful sleep boosts levels of growth hormone to build strong muscle and bone and burn ...

Research reveals how the brain balances sleep and growth hormone, explains why deep rest is key for muscle, metabolism, and ...

New research maps the brain circuit linking sleep, growth hormone, and alertness, offering insights into sleep disorders and ...

Have you ever wondered what actually happens in the brain during sleep? While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

As we sleep, our brain moves through four stages and two phases: non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM). The brain has four stages within the NREM phase. Each stage and phase of ...

Each morning, your brain embarks on a remarkable series of events: it transitions from being asleep, potentially in an alternate reality, to waking up. Within a short time, you regain waking ...

Early on, Nedergaard and Iliff, a glial cell biologist and a vascular physiologist, respectively, hypothesized that waste ...

How does your brain wake up from sleep? A study of more than 1,000 arousals from slumber has revealed precisely how the brain bestirs itself during the transition to alertness — a finding that might ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

How does your brain wake up from sleep? A study of more than 1,000 arousals from slumber has revealed precisely how the brain bestirs itself during the transition to alertness 1 — a finding that might ...

Brain waves can be manipulated whilst in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a sleep stage associated with memory and cognition, a new study from the University of Surrey finds. Novel technology, using ...