Have you ever wonderedwhy you can sleep for eight hours but still wake up feeling exhausted?Or why a six hour sleep sometimes feel more refreshing than a longer one?The answer lies in your sleep ...

Deep sleep refers to slow-wave sleep — a stage in the sleep cycle when brain waves slow down. Getting enough deep sleep is crucial for numerous bodily functions. But how to increase deep sleep isn’t ...

Have you ever wondered what actually happens in the brain during sleep? While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

Ever wonder why some mornings you wake up ready to go, and others you feel like a zombie? The difference often comes down to when you wake up during your sleep cycle, and that’s exactly what a sleep ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Research once viewed sleep as a passive state of “nothingness,” but modern neuroscience has revealed it to be a highly active, complex, and essential biological process. Far from being “down time,” ...

Just as a conductor coordinates different instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony, breathing coordinates hippocampal brain waves to strengthen memory while we sleep, reports a new ...

Thanks to the Internet, it's the age of self-diagnosis. People like to learn about (and treat) themselves through technology. As a sleep researcher, I was interested in my friends' use of ...