A study using electroencephalography found that the extent of memory retention after sleep is associated with time spent in slow wave sleep. The location where the brain shows neural activity ...

It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the ...

Why do memories falter with age? In a preprint posted on bioRxiv on May 22, scientists led by Omer Sharon and sleep researcher Matthew Walker at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested that ...

The key to keeping your wits about you as you age may lie in shut-eye during midlife. A study found that people over 60 who didn’t get enough slow-wave sleep — the third stage in the human sleep cycle ...

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 ...

It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is was previously unknown. Now, writing in the ...

It was late, and Sonia was alone in an unfamiliar town, trying to find her way home. The map showed a route through a dark forest lit by an occasional lantern. She viewed it with foreboding but, ...

Scientists now know that while we snooze, our brains help solidify the memories we made during the day. In this Special Feature, we investigate whether simple techniques might help improve memory ...

Suppose that your fifth-grader typically goes to bed at 9:30 PM on school nights and gets up at 6:30 AM. Since it often takes a little while to fall asleep after getting into bed, that means 8.5 to ...