While some factors that improve or reduce the quality of sleep are relatively well understood, many are not. Given the impact that sleep is known to have on matters such as stress, concentration and ...

A common sleep aid restores healthier sleep patterns and protects mice from the brain damage seen in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, according to new research from Washington ...

Trouble sleeping is common in other neurodegenerative diseases, but past research has only suggested that it occurs in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Now, a new study has not only ...

You check into a hotel and toss and turn all night, but your sleep improves the following night. Scientists at Nagoya University wanted to understand why this happens. Working with mice, they have ...

Researchers tested what factors improve or worsen the quality of sleep in mice. A team including researchers from the University of Tokyo placed mice in two environments, one where they could see and ...

A good night’s sleep does more than just help you feel rested, it might literally clear your mind, according to the results of newly reported research by scientists at the University of Rochester and ...

The mice had a genetic mutation that he suspected was linked to sleep problems. More striking were the electrical brain readings showing that even when they did sleep, they weren’t getting the deep, ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...

A new study by WashU Medicine researchers suggests that lemborexant and sleep aids that work the same way could help treat or prevent damage caused by harmful buildup of the protein tau in multiple ...