If you've been looking for a sign to work on your sleep hygiene, this is it. A new study suggests that a particular wave of ...

Prolonged mental fatigue can wear down brain areas crucial for an individual's ability to self-control, and can cause people ...

Deep sleep refers to slow-wave sleep — a stage in the sleep cycle when brain waves slow down. Getting enough deep sleep is ...

Remembering dreams is a complex process that depends on a number of factors. Here's why some people remember their dreams ...

A study reveals that prolonged mental exertion leads to changes in the brain's frontal cortex, resembling sleep activity, which heightens aggressive behaviors. This finding supports the idea that ...

A typical night's sleep consists of four to six sleep cycles, each lasting about 90 to 120 minutes and can vary on a number ...

The research on sleep has identified a phenomenon called "local sleep": it happens when some brain areas in the awake ...

In a new multidisciplinary study published in the PNAS, a group of researchers from neuroscience and economics at the IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca links the debated concept of "ego depletion", ...

You wake up feeling cold due to your brain no longer regulating body temperature to preserve energy while you are at rest.

While white noise has been found to improve the quality of sleep in some populations, including ICU patients, brown noise and ...

Psychologist Dana McMakin studies the link between sleep and kids’ mental health. Her advice for young and old alike: recall a happy memory at bedtime to help the brain process memories and emotions.