Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.

Busy people sometimes say that they will “sleep when they are dead.” The irony is that sleep deprivation harms your health ...

Analyzing data from more than half a million adults in the U.S. and U.K., researchers found that even light drinking was ...

Recent reporting reveals that REM sleep may fundamentally alter how memories are formed and recalled. During rapid eye movement stages, the brain actively reorganizes neural pathways to refine what we ...

As you sleep, your mind creates fantastic and bizarre stories, rich with visual details – all without any conscious input ...

Men with HIV and severe sleep-disordered breathing experience the greatest sleep disruption, with lower efficiency, more light sleep, and unstable sleep stages.

A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain ...

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

Andrew Yeung, a former Meta and Google employee who now operates the events company Fibe, shared the account on X (formerly ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

Sleep-like slow-wave patterns persist for years in surgically disconnected neural tissue of awake epilepsy patients, ...