Researchers find that a good night’s rest enhances learning and recall. To boost your learning and sharpen your memory, skip the brain teasers and string around your finger. Take a nap. You won’t merely be resting—your brain continues to learn while you’re asleep. Researchers at Michigan State University completed…

Dreams are one of the more elusive processes that occur in the human brain. Of course there are some aspects of dreaming that we can define. We can confidently say that dreams are a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur involuntarily in our minds during certain stages of sleep. Yet we don't [...]

Some people carry on learning while they sleep thanks to a “separate form of memory” that processes the day’s events, scientists believe. Even after people have gone to bed for the night their brains can carry on processing information according to the study by researchers at Michigan State University in the…

Up-and-down cycle flattens as age disrupts pattern A marker for Alzheimer’s disease rises and falls in the spinal fluid in a daily pattern that echoes the sleep cycle, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. The pattern is strongest in healthy young people and reinforces a link b…

A study of 62 teenagers showed that sleeping for between seven-and-a-half and eight-and-a-half hours a night kept insulin and blood sugar at the optimum level. Spending less or more time in bed increased the chance of raised glucose levels, while a lower amount of deep sleep caused insulin levels to drop, according to researc…