Have you ever wondered what actually happens in the brain during sleep? While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

Every night while our body is resting, the brain is still working hard in many ways. While sleep for the body might just mean rest, for the brain, it is the time to build up on your immunity and go ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Julia Chapman has received funding from the Amercian Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence, CogSleep, Woolcock Institute's Centre for Chronic Diseases of Ageing.

It’s been known for millennia that the human body accumulates waste as a result of day-to-day functioning, but it’s now recognized that the awake, active brain also builds up waste that negatively ...

Late-night scrolling isn’t the only thing sabotaging your slumber. New research suggests that a common daily habit may send your brain into overdrive while you sleep — even if you do it hours before ...

During sleep, the brain must achieve a delicate balance: disconnecting from sensory input to allow restorative functions, while remaining alert enough to wake if danger arises. How does it sort ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Abigail Dove receives funding from Alzheimerfonden, Demensfonden, and the Loo and Hans Osterman Foundation for Medical Research. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, yet sleep is anything but ...

People in dangerous jobs don’t usually sleep well. New research is investigating if their susceptibility to concussions and poor sleep could put them at greater risk of developing epilepsy. The ...