If you've been looking for a sign to work on your sleep hygiene, this is it. A new study suggests that a particular wave of sleep, called slow-wave sleep, plays an integral role in staving off ...

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It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is was previously unknown. Now, a team of ...

The key to keeping your wits about you as you age may lie in shut-eye during midlife. A study found that people over 60 who didn’t get enough slow-wave sleep — the third stage in the human sleep cycle ...

Why do memories falter with age? In a preprint posted on bioRxiv on May 22, scientists led by Omer Sharon and sleep researcher Matthew Walker at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested that ...

Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy and may protect against increased brain excitability associated with the ...