Have you ever wondered what actually happens in the brain during sleep? While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

One key role of sleep involves cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds and protects the brain. During sleep, CSF helps remove waste that accumulates during waking hours. In a 2019 study, Lewis and her ...

Mass General Brigham researchers developed an AI tool to accurately predict which patients will develop cognitive impairment over the next five years by analyzing brain wave patterns during sleep Mass ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza New neuroimaging research shows that when sleep-deprived people lose focus, the brain briefly ...

Just as a conductor coordinates different instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony, breathing coordinates hippocampal brain waves to strengthen memory while we sleep, reports a new ...

When we send that little electrical pulse to your temple, your brain recognizes that pulse and begins to mimic the pulse, nudging your brain waves into the states that they need to be in to be better ...

Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep. (Nadia Alzoubi, University of Oxford/Natalie Haugland, University of Copenhagen) (CN) — Danish scientists say a ...

The first time a breathing rhythm in the human hippocampus found during sleep Breathing is the metronome that coordinates sleep oscillations Findings are important for people with disordered breathing ...

Smartbuds uses electroencephalography (EEG) sensors to detect deep sleep and delivers precisely timed sound frequencies to ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Getting a good night’s sleep seems simple enough, but for 70 million Americans struggling with chronic sleep issues, it’s anything but easy. While many turn to sleep aids for relief, groundbreaking ...