A research team in Freiburg has investigated how random sounds played during sleep affect the consolidation of new memories.

New research identifies five distinct sleep subtypes, revealing links between brain patterns, behavior and health ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists discovered that these attention lapses coincide with waves of fluid washing ...

People with breathing problems during sleep may have a larger hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory and thinking, according to a new study. The study, which included mostly Latino ...

After all my devices are put away and lights turned off, I crawl into bed each night and—more often than not—cue my sleep sounds. As of late, music in particular has become as integral to my wind-down ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we cover neurogenesis in adulthood (yes! your brain can make new neurons even as you age), the link between exercise and increased neurogenesis in the ...

A groundbreaking study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2024 has uncovered a potential link between sleeping on your back and an increased risk of neurodegenerative ...