Researchers have found a way to trigger the brain’s sleep-like reset process in mice that were fully awake, reducing the neural toll of lost sleep without the animals ever losing consciousness. By ...

Sleep strips away consciousness, but it does not shut the brain down. PET imaging of 37 volunteers has shown that regional blood flow, a direct proxy for neural energy demand, shifts dramatically ...

Turning our clocks ahead next weekend, will rob us all of an hour – as we are sleeping. With World Sleep Day coming up on Friday (March 13), and in honor of Brain Awareness Week that starts Monday ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists discovered that these attention lapses coincide with waves of fluid washing ...