An AI-powered algorithm could facilitate the diagnosis of a common sleep disorder that affects over 80 million people globally, suggests a new study published in the Annals of Neurology. REM sleep ...

In a recently published Journal of the American Heart Association study, of nearly 1 million post-9/11 U.S. veterans, researchers found that adults with both insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea face ...

Sleep is not a state in which we are completely isolated from our environment: while we sleep, we are capable of hearing and understanding words. These observations, the result of close collaboration ...

Recent research reveals we dip into a sleeplike state as our brains flush out waste buildup.

Researchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's 'locus coeruleus' in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM and REM ...

It can be hard to get a diagnosis of idiopathic hypersomnia (IH). It’s easy to confuse it with other sleep disorders, such as narcolepsy. But even with a proper diagnosis, there are challenges. People ...

Electroencephalography, or EEG, was invented 100 years ago. In the years since the invention of this device to monitor brain electricity, it has had an incredible impact on how scientists study the ...

Sleep-disordered breathing includes several conditions that cause abnormal breathing during sleep, such as snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, which is when a person stops breathing five or more ...

Sleep debt is a condition when adults do not get enough sleep for a period of time, while the missing hours are accumulated.

It’s easy to ask: “Why sleep?” But we can also turn the question on its head: “Why wake?” We need to be awake, among other reasons, to find and eat food, drink water, escape danger, reproduce, and ...

Alto Neuroscience (ANRO) is a biotech to watch, because it has a major catalyst that is approaching in the 2nd half of 2024. This would be with respect to its lead drug known as ALTO-100, which is ...