COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of ...

As anyone who’s tossed and turned through sleepless nights will know, chronic sleep deprivation can turn the simplest task into a challenge. Microglia, it turns out, suffer similarly from no shuteye.

Researchers tested what factors improve or worsen the quality of sleep in mice. A team including researchers from the University of Tokyo placed mice in two environments, one where they could see and ...

WASHINGTON • Forgotten how to do something you just learned yesterday? Consider the possibility that last night's sleep was punctuated by mini-awakenings, robbing you of the ability to commit that new ...

While some factors that improve or reduce the quality of sleep are relatively well understood, many are not. Given the impact that sleep is known to have on matters such as stress, concentration and ...