If you regularly have a hard time getting restful sleep, you may need a sleep study. Also called polysomnography, a sleep study is a test that's used to diagnose sleep disorders. The good news? A ...

Dopamine neurons—the cells that drive reward and motivation while we're awake—become surprisingly active during nonrapid eye movement sleep right after we learn something new.

Manipulating mouse brains during sleep improved their ability to remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten—a ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.

Those with the sleep condition were more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. But one treatment was found to help. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi In a study published Monday in JAMA Neurology, ...

The findings: Insufficient sleep is one of the strongest negative predictors of how long you’ll live—more than insufficient ...

Some people invest in the strategy of sleep banking to get some extra shut-eye ahead of time if they expect to be ...

West Metro Fire Rescue will shift firefighter start times from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. after a sleep study revealed early shifts ...

A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that ...

Getting enough sleep and staying active are two of the most important things we can do for our health, but new research shows ...

On December 2, President Trump appeared drowsy during a Cabinet meeting, despite claiming to be ‘sharper than 25 years’ ago. His late-night social media activity suggests reduced sleep, potentially ...

Medically reviewed by Elizabeth Barnes, RDN Many of us need more sleep, which makes it tempting to try a quick fix, like ...