An autopsy study of a 45-year-old former U.S. Navy crewman with severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) suggested that ...

While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

During the night, when muscles go limp and dreams fade, the brain slips into slow-wave sleep - the quietest, most restorative phase.

Upon waking, all groups showed an improvement in their performance, but 85.7% of those who achieved the N2 sleep phase had ...

An actigraphy device is similar to a wristwatch and uses accelerometers to measure the person’s movement. Coupled with sleep ...

Researchers have found that the type of sleep most apt to calm and reset the anxious brain is deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow-wave sleep, a state in which neural ...

Overall, it was found that those who saw a decrease in the third stage of sleep were 27% more likely to develop dementia, and ...

Sound therapy—from baths to apps to binaural beats—has exploded in popularity, promising everything from better sleep to ...

During sleep, the brain must achieve a delicate balance: disconnecting from sensory input to allow restorative functions, ...

restorative sleep — and increases beta waves, which are associated with wakefulness and mental engagement. Caffeine pushes the brain into a state of “criticality,” where it becomes more alert and ...

Dr. Hamid Djalilian, Chief Medical Director at NeuroMed Tinnitus Clinic, explains that pink noise encourages " slow-wave ...