It "may help mitigate cognitive decline related to fatigue," a neurologist explains.

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists ...

If the organ doesn't get time to clean itself at night, it'll find (often inconvenient) time during the day.

A study led by researchers at the University of Camerino in Italy found that the fatty insulation protecting neurons can be harmed when we go without sleep, compromising our mental processing. Through ...

Don’t sleep on naps. Getting some quick shut-eye has been associated with several health benefits, such as boosting ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say short lapses in attention after poor sleep owe to sudden ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

GABA is a neurotransmitter that reduces brain activity, but it's also a supplement that could help with sleep.

The study explains that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which normally moves during sleep to clear waste products accumulated in ...

Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...

Researchers find long COVID brain effects vary by country, suggesting many cases may go underrecognized in lower-resource ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...