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 ...

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

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 ...

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

New research is shedding light on mysterious sleep mechanisms in an unexpected source: the Australian dragon lizard.

B rain waves can be manipulated whilst in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a sleep stage associated with memory and cognition, ...

But if sleep is disrupted, excess inflammation worsens cardiac function and slows healing. Huynh and colleagues saw that injuries to the heart increase ‘slow-wave’ sleep, which is also ...

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 sleep, called slow-wave sleep, plays an integral role in staving off ...

The risk of getting dementia may go up as you get older if you don't get enough slow-wave sleep. Over-60s are 27 percent more ...

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", ...