It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is, was previously unknown. How do permanent ...

A new Frontiers editorial synthesizes studies linking sleep microstructure, deprivation and night-to-night variability to ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds and supports the brain and ...

New research reveals that slow spindle density and slow oscillation coupling during a daytime nap are linked to speech-sound ...

There’s a cognitive alchemy that happens every night when we sleep. We close our eyes, disappear into the darkness, and the brain begins its own private editorial cycle. This isn’t rest in the trivial ...

A research team in Freiburg has investigated how random sounds played during sleep affect the consolidation of new memories. The results show that non-targeted acoustic stimuli disrupt deep sleep. As ...

Why do memories falter with age? In a preprint posted on bioRxiv on May 22, scientists led by Omer Sharon and sleep researcher Matthew Walker at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested that ...

The immune system does not take a break when you sleep. It takes advantage of it. The hours you spend unconscious are when ...