It is well-known that the extracellular concentrations of various ions in the brain change depending on the behavioral state, meaning awake or asleep. Sleep and wakefulness have their own distinct ...

Inspired by this phenomenon, they applied Nobel Prize-winning theories in the field of haptics in neuroscience , and refined by other studies including Sleep Induction by Mechanosensory Stimulation in ...

Sleep. It's the one thing we all do and the one thing that few of us are willing to screw around with—if only because a bad night of sleep can ruin an entire day. Still, hundreds of sleep tricks, ...

2breathe Technologies has taken an FDA-cleared device that's marketed to treat hypertension and adapted it to market a consumer device to address insomnia. Sleep was reported as a side effect with the ...

Professor Hiroki Ueda, Assistant Professor Daisuke Tone, Lecturer Koji Ode, and Qianhui Zhang (4th-year graduate student at the time) at the University of Tokyo showed that CaMKIIβ (1), a predominant ...

In a recent perspective piece published in the journal Neuron, researchers discussed how stress can disrupt and promote sleep and the biological mechanisms that may underlie these responses. They ...

PHILADELPHIA - It is common practice to rock babies to sleep. Children and grownups also get drowsy during long car rides. There is something about gentle mechanical stimuli that makes humans of all ...

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of daridorexant (Quviviq, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of insomnia.

Guys, how are you sleeping lately? Many professionals, including yours truly, most of the time find their careers leading them into longer work hours and juggling multiple projects, which in turn also ...

Anyone who has tried to sleep in with the blinds raised on a sunny morning knows all too well that light affects sleep. Yet, visible light, as detected by the human eye, represents an array of colors ...

Cellphones, televisions, pads, and monitors are not generally considered unwitting enemies of sleep, yet often are. We have great fun with electronic lights, but we are not built for light at night.