Sleep

How Targeted Sounds During Sleep Could Improve Your Memory

Have you ever been rocked to sleep as a child? Might this soothing motion that could calm us down as children have an effect on quality of sleep and memory consolidation? In 2020, a team of researchers, motivated by this question, mounted a bed

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Improving Sleep Quality in Insomnia with Magnetic Stimulation

Nearly one-third of adults will experience some symptoms of insomnia in their lifetime, whether it be lack of sleep, low sleep quality, or waking up at inappropriately early times [1]. Changes in just sleep quality may not seem like a particularly important issue on

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Snoring Is Not That Simple: Snoring And Neurocognition

Understanding Snoring Have you ever shared a dorm room with someone else and been rudely awakened in the wee hours of the morning by your roommate’s snoring? If you've

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Somnambulism: So, you're a sleepwalker?

When thinking of sleepwalking, the image that most often springs to mind is that of a person rising from their bed and walking around like a zombie. But the potential implications are a lot larger than this.

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Sleep and the Glymphatic System

We have all experienced sleepless nights and know what it is like to suffer the consequences: inability to focus, decreased productivity, and feeling lethargic. Sleep is a process that is

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The Mechanisms of General Anesthesia

For many, the thought of undergoing surgery can be a terrifying fear. Operations in the United States often come with an exorbitant price tag and without any guarantee of success. At the extreme end, there is even a risk of death.

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Improving Memory through Slow Wave Sleep

In the ocean, the form water will take at any given time may seem unpredictable to someone not paying attention, though there are patterns that can be identified and relied upon with some certainty.

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Harnessing Your Inner Bear: The Neuroscience Behind Hibernation

You’ve just woken up from a deep sleep. As you slowly regain your senses, you find you have a renewed sense of vigor. The birds are chirping outside, and the sun’s rays neatly drape themselves on your wall.

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Sleep Karate: How a Neurological Disorder Can Make You Act Out Your Dreams

Most of us can probably recall the last vivid dream or nightmare that we’ve had. Maybe it was trekking through a futuristic city worlds away, maybe it was running from a monster with a seemingly familiar presence...

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Harnessing the Power of Sleep

Many college students discount the importance of sleep; whether it is to stay up cramming for a test, or to play a new game that was just released, students simply

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Livin’ the Dream

For most of us, dreaming is a normal and unremarkable facet of life. But, what if this didn’t have to be the case? What if instead of waking up

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Insomnia: Why Students Are Sleeping in Class

It’s no secret that college students struggle to get sleep. Between juggling midterms, homework, and 8:30 a.m. classes, it isn’t just a stereotype that students are

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In Your Dreams: Insights from Dream Research

Why Do We Dream? Dreams have held cultural and religious significance throughout history, and in some cases, they have influenced history or culture themselves. James Watson, who won the Nobel

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Dravet Syndrome: A Model for Autism and Epilepsy

Autism and epilepsy affect millions of people worldwide and have a profound impact on the lives of patients as well as their friends and family. These disorders are challenging to

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Rest Assured

Sleep sets people back. Every night, people stop and doze off; they don’t eat, work, or learn. Evolutionarily, it should be a recessive trait—after all, non-sleepers could get

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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Everyone has vivid dreams from time to time, and in many of them, dreamers take actions that they wouldn’t necessarily want to replicate in real life. Thankfully, the brain

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How the Brain Takes Out the Garbage While You Sleep

Evidence suggesting that sleep is crucial to your health continues to pile up. A recent finding published in Science has shed light on one of the mechanisms behind the restorative

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The Hypothalamus: A Sleep Regulation Structure

Until the 1950s, common theories of sleep involved the brain shutting down, or powering off, similar to a car engine. Research since then, however, has shown high levels of activity