Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

Two particular phases in your nightly routine seem to play outsize roles in cognitive health. By Mohana Ravindranath A good night’s sleep isn’t just about the number of hours you log. Getting quality ...

Deep REM sleep is where your mind resets, your mood stabilizes, and your skin and body recover in ways daytime habits simply can’t touch. It’s the phase that supports memory, emotional regulation, and ...

Ever wake up convinced something happened that actually didn’t? That vivid memory of a conversation with your friend, a movie you’re sure you watched, or an event that feels completely real but never ...

Nothing gives you a boost of energy quite like a good night’s rest. But did you know that sleep and memory are also connected? A recent study from Cornell researchers revealed that neurons help “reset ...

In a recent study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers investigated the impacts of full-night-, early-night deprivation-, and late-night deprivation sleep on whole-brain ...

Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

RBD is marked by loss of REM sleep atonia, leading to physical dream enactment. Polysomnography is essential to confirm RBD and rule out other disorders. Idiopathic RBD is a strong predictor of ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the disorders that can result when sleep transitions go wrong Yasemin ...

A study using electroencephalography found that the extent of memory retention after sleep is associated with time spent in ...

The most frequently reported reasons for medicinal cannabis use are for pain relief and improvements in sleep. Although ...