While you sleep tonight, your brain will quietly replay pieces of your day. Not like a movie, and not in order, but in rapid, ...

You wake up after a terrible night of sleep, and the fog is immediate: names slip away, your train of thought derails ...

Chronic stress, depression, cardiovascular disease, fragmented sleep, and aging are all associated with a higher risk of dementia, but scientists have not yet discovered exactly why. Now, a review ...

Turning our clocks ahead next weekend, will rob us all of an hour – as we are sleeping. With World Sleep Day coming up on Friday (March 13), and in honor of Brain Awareness Week that starts Monday ...

Scientists have new insight into why we have trouble focusing after a bad night of sleep. Attention lapses when we’re sleep-deprived result from our brain’s efforts to clean itself up, a process that ...

In his wildest dreams, HHMI Investigator Massimo Scanziani never imagined he'd study sleep. But, when a postdoc in the lab ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've always wondered what exactly happens inside my brain after a sleepless night. Why does everything feel harder—thinking ...

Oura reports 14 science-backed strategies to recover from a bad night’s sleep, including hydration, natural light exposure, ...

Consequently, we humans, as well as all other organisms, developed a circadian rhythm in our physiology and behaviors with ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Nearly everyone has experienced it: After a night of poor sleep, you don’t feel as alert as you should. Your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying ...