Neuroscience

Dream discovery: Melatonin's key role in REM sleep revealed

A significant breakthrough in the understanding of sleep mechanism opens new promise for treating sleep disorders and associated neuropsychiatric conditions: Scientists have pinpointed the melatonin receptor MT1 as a crucial ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study finds men and women process memory in different ways

The Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memory Lab, at the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB), published an article published in Science Advances describing the detection of new neuronal circuits involved in fear memory that ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Sleep study finds post-karaoke stress is strengthened by REM sleep

We're all familiar with the fact that the quality of our sleep has a strong impact on our waking lives. But what you may not know is that sleep stages contribute to how we process life experiences and memories in different ...

Neuroscience

Researchers find new origin of deep brain waves

University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering 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 ...

Sleep disorders

Can 'colored noise' really improve our sleep?

One in four people suffer from some kind of sleep disorder—insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, hypersomnia, restless legs syndrome. And for a quarter of them, there is no effective, long-term solution. It is a public health ...

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