Rapid eye movement, or REM, is a stage of sleep in which you’re most likely to dream. Your heart rate, blood pressure, and ...

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The characteristic eye movements that give rapid eye movement (REM) sleep its name represent gaze shifts in the dream world of sleeping mice, according to a new study. The findings reveal an ...

New research reveals that neurons in the preoptic hypothalamus -- the region of the brain that regulates sleep and body temperature -- are rhythmically activated during non-rapid eye movement sleep ...

Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the ...

The neurotransmitter dopamine is responsible for switching the mouse brain between the two main modes of sleep: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep. In all animals, sleep alternates ...

Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders involve repeated episodes of incomplete awakening from sleep, most commonly sleepwalking or night terrors (also known as sleep terrors), but ...

The rapid eye movements during a mouse's REM sleep provide more insight into the mechanism behind dreaming, a new study finds. It appears that animals can dream too. This especially happens during a ...

Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders involve repeated episodes of incomplete awakening from sleep, most commonly sleepwalking or night terrors (also known as sleep terrors), but ...

Have you ever wondered what animals dream about? When mice slumber, their rapid eye movements reflect the imagined movements of their heads in their dreams. If the same is true for humans, researchers ...