Quite a bit of research has begun to explore influences of sleep on cognitive processes. In adults, sleep has a huge influence on memory. Sleep speeds learning of new skills. It also helps to separate ...

Our brains have an extraordinary ability to adapt and learn, a process known as neuroplasticity. From navigating a new city to mastering a new skill, neuroplasticity allows us to reshape our neural ...

Just before you climb under your duvet, you carefully prepare your room. You sprinkle a few drops of incense on your pillow, put on some headphones, and place a strange-looking band over your scalp.

Parents know that perhaps the toughest part of having young children is getting them to take their naps. Although those precious few minutes, or hopefully even hours, are crucial for the stability of ...

We know that quality sleep is integral to our overall health, and now a new study suggests that it also plays a significant ...

Research undertaken over the last century has revealed that sleep plays a role in the mechanisms directing normal cognitive and developmental processes, including the consolidation of memories. This ...

Sleep I slept for 8 hours a night and still felt exhausted — until an expert changed one simple thing about my sleep schedule Sleep For months I’ve been waking up at 3 a.m. with anxiety — a doctor ...

It’s the middle of the night. Your body is still, your breathing slow. While you dream of forgotten high school exams and flying through cityscapes, something remarkable is happening in your brain.

We spend roughly a third of our lives doing something that, for most of history, scientists treated as a kind of placeholder — a passive state between the real work of being awake. That assumption has ...