Genes that Regulate How Much We Dream
A new study identifies two genes which regulate how much we dream. The genes, Chrm1 and Chrm3, play a key role in regulating REM sleep and function in different ways.... Read More...
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Skills and Learning Improved by Closed Loop Electrical Brain Stimulation During Sleep
Researchers report transcranial alternating current stimulation applied during sleep can help accelerate learning, memory and skill acquisition.... Read More...
How REM and Non-REM Sleep May Work Together to Help Solve Problems
Researchers have created a new model that may help explain how different sleep patterns may help us to solve problems. The study reveals non-REM sleep helps us categorize information, where as REM sleep helps us to draw unexpected connections between information we have been exposed to.... Read More...
Memories Can Be Decoded from Brain Waves During Sleep
Sleep spindles assist with the processing of relevant memories during sleep and help boost memory consolidation, researchers report.... Read More...
First Look at Pupil Size in Sleeping Mice Yields Surprises
Researchers report the size of the pupil fluctuates during sleep. The findings may indicate that pupil size can indicate specific sleep states.... Read More...
Wrist Worn Gadget Allows Researchers to Capture Real Life Sleep
A simple actimeter device is helping researchers better understand sleep duration and quality in humans.... Read More...
Brain Still ‘Connected’ During Non-REM Sleep
Contrary to a popular theory, researchers discover the brain remains connected during non-REM sleep. The study reports not all forms of communication within the cerebral cortex are disrupted during this sleep phase.... Read More...
Love Your Beauty Rest? You Can Thank These Brain Cells
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified specific neurons in the zona incerta that appear to help promote sleep. The discovery could help develop new treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders.... Read More...
Deep Sleep Reinforces the Learning of New Motor Skills
According to UCSF researchers, during non-REM sleep, newly learned useful neural patterns are replayed and recapped.... Read More...
Controlling Memory By Triggering Specific Brain Waves During Sleep
Using optogenetics, researchers manipulated pulses of neural activity during non REM sleep that made mice either remember of forget things they had learned. This novel study demonstrated that altering sleep spindle oscillations during sleep has an impact on memory formation and retention.... Read More...
Deep Sleep May Act As Fountain of Youth in Old Age
Natural, restorative sleep can help stave off mental and physical decline as we age.... Read More...
Universal Immune Mechanism as a Regulator of Sleep
Sleep may be regulated by inflammasome NLRP3, researchers report.... Read More...