Your nightly sleep cycle plays a key role in the quality of your sleep. Here's what happens in each stage and why it matters ...

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

The average person spends around a third of their life sleeping. Yet as many as 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders and wakefulness, studies have found, and tossing and turning at ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In the past, scientists thought dreams happened only during REM sleep. Does that theory still ...

A restful night alternates in cycles between non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep states. The study from UNIL shows that a brain region called the "locus coeruleus" (in ...

The discovery of increased levels of dopamine (DA) in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) of the brain at the transition from non-rapid eye movement (NREM) to REM sleep in mice suggests a druggable sleep ...

For every 1 gram per kilogram increase in alcohol dose, REM sleep duration was reduced by 40.4 minutes. Alcohol consumption adversely affects rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in a dose-dependent manner, ...

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