Every night, when your head hits the pillow, you do more than just dream. Your brain takes all the information experienced that day — formulas crammed for a calculus test, snippets of office gossip, ...

While we’re asleep at night, our brain is doing something incredible. The hippocampus and the neocortex, two of its key regions, talk back and forth, processing information for long-term ...

This research adds to a growing body of evidence that sleep actively reshapes the brain’s ability to learn. Even a short ...

Use of hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HGNS) may be effective for treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but a higher body mass index (BMI) and supine sleeping position may decrease effects, according ...

It's another one of those nights. You lay in bed, frustration rising because no matter what you do, you can’t sleep. Your sound machine is going, your leg is kicked out from under the comforter to ...

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) added to tai chi chuan exercise improved sleep and cognition in older adults who had both sleep disorders and mild cognitive impairment, a ...

Researchers developed a novel “closed-loop” system that delivered electrical pulses in a brain region to synchronize brain activity recorded from another region in the brain to improve memory. Among ...

A nerve-stimulation treatment for obstructive sleep apnea that originally was approved only for people with body mass indexes (BMIs) in the healthy range recently was extended to patients with BMIs up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army researchers are exploring ways to boost soldiers’ sleep to increase cognition and performance. Doctors at the U.S. Army ...