A new study published in the Journal of Sleep Research has found that long-term meditation practice is associated with more resilient sleep architecture and preserved brain activity in older adults.

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 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers investigated the impacts of full-night-, early-night deprivation-, and late-night deprivation sleep on whole-brain ...

Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

A research team led by Cleveland Clinic and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) has developed a new method for mapping how the parts of the brain "speak" to each other, critical to ...

Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and ...