A stage of sleep – reflected in the size of our pupils – is important to committing recent memories to the brain, which could ...

When you wake up in the morning on your own, it's usually as you come to the end of whatever stage of sleep you were in. That leaves you feeling much better than when an alarm wakes you up in the ...

The Elemind headband reads your brain waves and responds in real time with acoustic stimulation to help you fall asleep ...

Scientists had a rare opportunity to study living brain tissue — and cracked a giant mystery about sleep health ...

The brain wave changes correlate with changes in heart ... most adults cycle through four to six cycles of non-REM (NREM) and REM sleep stages. There’s really no way to designate any sleep ...

"Memory consolidation relies on orchestration of brain waves during sleep, and we show that this process is closely timed by breathing," said corresponding author Andrew Sheriff, a postdoctoral ...

N3 is often called “deep” sleep, and this stage accounts for about a quarter of your night. It has the slowest brain waves, so it’s sometimes called “slow wave sleep.” It’s hard to ...

It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is was previously unknown. Now, writing in ...

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.

Around 15 percent of the world's population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ...

EEG is already used to diagnose and study conditions such as epilepsy, brain inflammation and sleep disorders ... the brain waves of healthy individuals and those in the early stages of dementia.