Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person’s risk of diabetes. What has remained a mystery, however, is why. Now, new findings from a team of sleep scientists at the ...

You’re hurrying out of the grocery story to drive home and start cooking dinner. As the doors close behind you, you step into the parking lot and head… where? Where, among the rows of gleaming ...

Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person’s risk of diabetes, but it’s not been known why. The results of a study in humans by a team of sleep scientists at the ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles. Traditionally believed to originate from one brain circuit linking ...

A skin patch on the face at night could increase the time spent in deep sleep - which is vital for protecting the brain ...

During sleep, the brain cleans itself, turning up the flow of cerebrospinal fluid through the gray matter parenchyma to wash away waste. What powers this flow? In the February 28 Nature online, ...

Delta wave activity disruption during sleep may be a useful metric to identify those at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality. An international team of researchers ...

Mass General Brigham researchers have developed an AI tool that analyzes brain wave activity recorded during sleep using electroencephalography (EEG), a non-invasive technique that measures electrical ...

Researchers have uncovered a potential mechanism in humans that explains how and why deep-sleep brain waves at night are able to regulate the body's sensitivity to insulin, which in turn improves ...