Deep Sleep Gives Your Brain a Deep Clean
Slow-wave activity during dreamless slumber helps wash out neural detritus
Slow-wave activity during dreamless slumber helps wash out neural detritus
There’s a connection between sleep and hunger. Getting better quality sleep may help with appetite, cravings, and ultimately, weight loss
U.C.S.F. researchers find a gene for flourishing with less shut-eye
If you’re not sleeping well, you may not be reaching your life goals, let alone your fitness goals
The marine mollusks display behavior that resembles sleep, including cycles of rapid eye movement
Weekday sleep deprivation with weekend make-up sleeping seems to be worse for blood sugar control than even chronic sleep deprivation alone.
There are plenty of theories, but nobody really knows for sure
Back-and-forth motions may tweak the sensory organs that control our balance and spatial orientation
Mice that lack these genes do not engage in rapid eye movement sleep
Study proposes novel sleep theory, but whether it can explain infant death syndrome remains less clear
Poor-quality sleep may heighten behaviors including hyperactivity, compulsions and aggressiveness
Intriguing new research suggests a positive sleep role for a meaningful life
The brainless marine creatures are the simplest organisms known to seek slumber
Studying the dreaming brain offers a window on consciousness
Without a nighttime reset, synapses could burn out like an outlet with too many appliances plugged in
New research suggests sleep doesn’t just help learning, it helps “relearning” as well
The nervous and immune systems are tightly intertwined. Deciphering their chatter might help address many brain disorders and diseases
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