Deep REM sleep is where your mind resets, your mood stabilizes, and your skin and body recover in ways daytime habits simply can’t touch. It’s the phase that supports memory, emotional regulation, and ...

During REM sleep, your heart rate increases, your blood pressure elevates, and your eyes move. REM sleep may also be the time when your brain processes emotions and solidifies memories. Your body ...

Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

It sounds like the start of a horror film: a shadowy figure at the end of your bed, a faceless presence sitting on your chest ...

Your brain cycles through several stages during sleep, and REM sleep might be the most critical. This mysterious phase, where ...

Eugene Aserinsky never wanted to study sleep. He tried being a social worker, a dental student, and even did a stint in the army as an explosives handler. He enrolled at the University of Chicago to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prolonged REM sleep latency was associated with three key Alzheimer’s-specific pathological changes. REM sleep ...

Despite our broad understanding of the different brain regions activated during rapid-eye-movement sleep, little is known about what this activity serves for. Researchers have now discovered that the ...

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