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 ...

People can actually train their brains to wake up at a consistent time each day that is a natural stopping point. Brains have ...

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 ...

During the transition into sleep, those electrical signals begin to fall into wave-like patterns, with different wave patterns associated with different stages of sleep. As the body relaxes, the brain ...

In fact, these brain waves are pretty similar whether we're awake or in REM sleep. We know that brain waves, pulses of ...

As part of the study published in SLEEP, researchers at the University of Surrey manipulated the brain waves known as the alpha and theta oscillations in 18 healthy young adults while they slept.

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", ...

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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 ...