A new study suggests that reproducing a crucial sleep-like brain pattern in awake animals may help preserve memory and ...

Getting adequate sleep affects more than just energy levels—research suggests it also plays a major role in memory, cognition ...

Turning our clocks ahead next weekend, will rob us all of an hour – as we are sleeping. With World Sleep Day coming up on Friday (March 13), and in honor of Brain Awareness Week that starts Monday ...

Waking up at 3 a.m. destroys your focus. This simple mental trick forces your brain offline instantly.

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Mice seemed to reap some of the benefits of sleep by having their brain activity stimulated while they were awake, and the ...

Researchers studied a group of adults to learn more about the connection between sleep quality and brain aging. The scientists used MRI scans to determine each person’s ‘brain age’ and compared that ...