Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to ...

Memory formation, storage, and retrieval are fundamental processes that define who we are and how we interact with the world. At the cellular level, these processes rely on specialized neurons called ...

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 ...

Getting "a good night's sleep" is a phrase we are all familiar with. Sleep and its "quality" are things many of us struggle with. Sleep is a hugely studied research topic. Just typing "sleep" as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in El Paso Matters. Darek Perez knows the benefits of a good night’s sleep. The freshman ...

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 ...

On the last Sunday in October, we will set our clocks back an hour, which may temporarily disrupt the sleep patterns of some people. Research at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland shows that sleep ...

Sleep is an integral, yet often overlooked, part of a Princeton students daily schedule. But, what does our brain actually do when it’s asleep? This is a research focus of Princeton Computational ...

Lack of sleep hinders the acquisition of new information and the retrieval of previously learned material. Moreover, sleep deprivation significantly disrupts memory consolidation - the process through ...

But according to Dr. Scott Schecter, a pulmonologist at UVA Health’s Sleep Disorders Center, that tradeoff may be costing ...