Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and ...

Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.

A study identified five sleep types that could be linked to mental well-being, bedtime habits and brain activity. The findings could help improve clinical treatments.

This study examines how sleep influences memory, revealing the interplay between emotional cues and intentional recall in ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Scientists instructed people to remember or forget words and then checked what words they retained in their memory after a 12 ...

Essentially, sleep is divided into two stages – non-rapid eye movement (non-REM, which the researchers refer to as NREM) sleep and REM sleep – and it's widely understood both play distinct roles in ...

Here’s a fact that might surprise you: we really do not know why we sleep. Of course, we sleep because our bodies demand it; we know we require sleep for our survival. But we’ve yet to discover the ...

Experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Feb. 1, 2013 — -- An experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, found that seniors enjoy less quality ...