Researchers working with mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease found that depleting the brain’s immune cells, called microglia, ...
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The 4 Stages of Sleep

What happens in the brain and body during NREM and REM sleep As you sleep, your brain cycles through four stages of sleep. The first three are considered non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, also ...
Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We have evolved a sleep cycle that ...
Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnias involve disordered sleep-related behaviors that occur during the first few hours of sleep. Common treatment options typically include medication and ...
New research reveals that neurons in the preoptic hypothalamus -- the region of the brain that regulates sleep and body temperature -- are rhythmically activated during non-rapid eye movement sleep ...
REM sleep -- the phase of night-time mammalian sleep physiology where dreams occur -- has long fascinated scientists, clinicians, philosophers, and artists alike, but the identity of the neurons that ...
A recent paper in Sleep Medicine (Uguccioni, G., Golmard, J.-L., de Fontréaux, A.N., Leu-Semenescu, S., Brion, A., Arnulf, I.Fight or flight? Dream content during ...
Sleep happens in cycles that include three non-rapid eye movement (NREM) stages and one rapid eye movement (REM) stage, repeated 4 to 5 times nightly. Each cycle typically lasts 90 to 110 minutes. The ...
A recent paper in Sleep Medicine (Uguccioni, G., Golmard, J.-L., de Fontréaux, A.N., Leu-Semenescu, S., Brion, A., Arnulf, I.Fight or flight? Dream content during ...