Why People With Insomnia Don’t Know They’re Asleep
People with insomnia have greater brain activity in regions associated with conscious awareness during NREM sleep, researchers report. ... Read More...
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Why Does Sleep Become Disrupted in Old Age?
Age related sleep disruptions are not due to alterations in activity of individual neurons as previously believed, researchers report.... 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...
Offbeat Brain Rhythms During Sleep Make Older Adults Forget
As we age, slow brain waves during non-REM sleep fail to time contact with sleep spindles efficiently, leading to a lessened ability to form new memories correctly, a new study reports.... Read More...
How Memories Ripple Through the Brain
Researchers demonstrate sleep boosts communication between the neocortex and hippocampus, assisting with memory formation.... Read More...
Can Listening to Music Help You Fall Asleep?
Researchers explore how listening to music prior to sleep could impact how well you rest.... 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...
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...