Latest

NREM

Featured Neuroscience

·March 23, 2020·3 min read

The brainstem neurons that regulate non-REM sleep

Study identifies a key role the brainstem neurotensinergic neurons play in non-REM sleep regulation.

This shows brain activity from the study

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·March 2, 2020·3 min read

Sleeping sheep may offer clues to human brain disease

Monitoring sleep spindles in sheep may one day translate to sleep based diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases in humans.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·November 4, 2019·4 min read

Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain

Deep sleep restores the medial prefrontal cortex mechanisms that restore emotion. This lowers emotional and physiological reactivity, preventing the escalation of stress and anxiety.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·February 27, 2019·4 min read

Not All Sleep is Equal When it Comes to Cleaning the Brain

Study reinforces and explains the links between sleep deprivation and neurodegenerative diseases, researchers say.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·January 24, 2019·5 min read

Rocking Improves Sleep and Memory in Both People and Mice

A new study reveals people fall asleep faster when being rocked. Additionally, they showed improvements in memory consolidation and spent more time in non-REM sleep.

Featured Neurology Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 9, 2019·5 min read

Decreased Deep Sleep Linked to Early Alzheimer’s Disease

A new study links poor sleep quality in older adults with elevated levels of tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers report poor sleep quality later in life may be associated with declining brain health and may be an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 5, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Learns During Sleep

A new study sheds additional light on how the brain consolidates memory during sleep. Researchers report rapid fluctuations in gamma band activity in the hippocampus during nREM sleep helps facilitate memory reactivation.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·August 28, 2018·3 min read

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.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 7, 2018·3 min read

Learning While Sleeping? Our Capabilities May Be Limited

A new study MEG study reveals our ability to learn during slow wave sleep is limited.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·May 15, 2018·4 min read

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.