Slow wave sleep is the sleep stage that's all about muscle recovery. Experts tell us what you need to know about it and why it's important. I came upon this reality in using the Whoop Strap, a buzzy ...

Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person’s risk of diabetes, but it’s not been known why. The results of a study in humans by a team of sleep scientists at the ...

An organized tide of brain waves, blood and spinal fluid pulsing through a sleeping brain may flush away neural toxins that cause Alzheimer’s and other diseases. When you sink into a deep sleep, a ...

During sleep, the brain cleans itself, turning up the flow of cerebrospinal fluid through the gray matter parenchyma to wash away waste. What powers this flow? In the February 28 Nature online, ...

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If you've been looking for a sign to work on your sleep hygiene, this is it. A new study suggests that a particular wave of sleep, called slow-wave sleep, plays an integral role in staving off ...

Researchers have uncovered a potential mechanism in humans that explains how and why deep-sleep brain waves at night are able to regulate the body's sensitivity to insulin, which in turn improves ...

Newly launched app Wave Sleep offers 45-minute pre-bed visualization meditations to help you stop counting sheep—and start falling asleep. Previously the creative director of Y7, Brad Warsh is now the ...

A sleeping rat may look peaceful. But inside its furry, still head, a war is raging. Two types of brain waves battle over whether the rat will remember new information, or forget it, researchers ...

Are you waking up in a puddle of sweat — if you can sleep at all? That's the grim reality for millions of people around the globe suffering through severe, unbearable heat waves. July is the hottest ...

Could gauging Aβ and tau accumulation in healthy older adults be as simple as measuring their brain activity during sleep? Researchers led by Matthew Walker, University of California, Berkeley, think ...