During the quiet hours of sleep, your brain is hard at work. It sends out tiny electrical signals that ripple across networks ...

Young people who go to bed earlier and sleep for longer have greater brain function and could perform better in tests, a study suggests. While a good night's sleep was important, "surprisingly little" ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

Getting the proper amount of sleep is one of the most important things we can do to maintain or even improve our health. If ...

As part of this study, researchers gave young people Fitbits to gather objective data on their sleep patterns and compare it against brain scans and results from cognitive tests. They found the ...

Scientists said mice test subjects exhibited needing about ... some people to thrive on as little as three hours of sleep, according to a study published in Proceedings of National Academy ...

Cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) analysis of sleep stability might be a useful risk biomarker for memory function among children.

Young people who go to bed earlier and sleep for longer have greater brain function and could perform better in tests, a study suggests. While a good night's sleep was important, "surprisingly ...

The usual treatment for OSA is a machine called CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), which keeps the airway open ...

An investigational oral selective orexin receptor 2 agonist significantly improved measures of wakefulness, sleepiness, and ...

The study found the brain changes were strongly ... Participants took a memory test before and after sleep to determine sleep-dependent memory. Researchers found that deficits in sleep-dependent ...