Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first time in the Nov. 1 Science, may help explain why sleep is so ...

Taking a pill containing cannabis compounds might alter sleep patterns for individuals with mild to moderate insomnia, mostly ...

New research shows brain waves travel in distinct shapes—and those patterns could one day help doctors strengthen memory and ...

Summary: Researchers dismantled the classic assumption that a person’s ability to easily fall asleep after a cup of coffee ...

Researchers found caffeine changes brain activity during sleep, reducing deep restorative sleep and keeping the brain more ...

Sleep works magic on memory. You might’ve felt these frustrations before: Trying to learn a guitar riff, shoot a free-throw, or nail a difficult phrase in a new language, but despite hours of practice ...

For a very long time, people have thought that general anaesthesia simply puts you into a deep, temporary sleep before an ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

In the space of just a few seconds, a person walking down a city block might check their phone, yawn, worry about making rent, and adjust their path to avoid a puddle. The smell from a food cart could ...

In collaboration with GIST, Principal Researcher An Jinung’s team has implemented an AI that classifies pain intensity by analyzing brain waves based on thermal stimuli. - The limitations of ...

As dementia becomes more widespread, Mayo Clinic researchers believe that artificial intelligence is the key to enabling earlier and faster diagnoses. By pairing AI and EEG (electroencephalogram) ...