Sleep disturbances may accelerate neurodegeneration, but whether they cause or result from disease remains unclear. Improving ...

Fruit flies with genetic mutations that severely reduce sleep show enhanced performance in olfactory memory tasks, ...

According to Northwestern Medicine, between March and November, the body is exposed to less morning light and more evening, which can throw off a person's circadian rhythm and sleep homeostasis.

The research consists of four main lines: sleep homeostasis, the effects of sleep and sleep loss on human health, mechanisms of sleep and depression and zebra fish as an animal model of sleep research ...

Contrary to the synaptic homeostasis theory, new work finds that reactivating memories during slow-wave sleep enhances learning and hippocampal activation. This may be useful for treating post ...