Scientists zeroed in on a lesser-known part of the brain that helps control both sleep cycles and memory.

In 1959, New York DJ Peter Tripp became a test subject for sleep’s effects. His 201-hour wakeathon made him see spiders in his shoes and question his identity. This shows why sleep is essential, not ...

Can caffeine save your social life? New research shows how caffeine restores social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by targeting the hippocampal CA2 region. Learn about the molecular mechanisms ...

Sleep has long been understood as essential to human health, but for much of history, scientists treated it as a passive state — a period of downtime when the body simply recovered from the demands of ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have demonstrated that caffeine can restore social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by ...

Just as a single night of insomnia may leave you feeling groggy and cranky, solid slumber can help you feel rested and ready to take on the day. How well you sleep over time, however, can influence ...

Lack of sleep hinders the acquisition of new information and the retrieval of previously learned material. Moreover, sleep deprivation significantly disrupts memory consolidation - the process through ...

Ear plugs are better than trendy "pink noise" for protecting sleep quality, according to new research. Ambient sounds or pink noise - often used to promote better patterns of sleeping - may in fact ...

Older women with comorbid insomnia and sleep apnea (COMISA) experienced significantly worse verbal memory performance compared to those with sleep apnea alone, as well as men with COMISA, according to ...