A common sleep aid restores healthier sleep patterns and protects mice from the brain damage seen in neurodegenerative ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

Mouse models treated with the sleep aid lemborexant had less brain damage compared to controls and mice that received a ...

The researchers went on to genetically engineer the DEC2 mutation into mice, showing that the animals need less sleep than their littermates. And they found that one of the gene’s jobs is to ...

Danish scientists found that a molecule called norepinephrine plays a key role in the brain's cleaning in mice. During deep sleep, the brainstem releases tiny waves of norepinephrine about once ...

Their study in mice showed how deep sleep may wash away waste buildup in the brain during waking hours, an essential process for maintaining brain health. The results for the first time describe ...

Is all sleep created equal? The researchers wanted to find out. To find clues, Nedergaard and her team looked into what happens in mice when their brains sleep, as SWNS reported of the study.

“The whole housekeeping function of sleep has been ignored for many, many years,” she says. Mice on zolpidem fell asleep faster and slept deeper than naturally sleeping mice, says ...

Sponsor Message These emergency-like responses were also directed toward dead mice, for a time, but rarely toward active or even sleeping mice. Mice were also much more likely to spring into ...

Danish scientists found that a molecule called norepinephrine plays a key role in the brain’s cleaning in mice. During deep sleep, the brainstem releases tiny waves of norepinephrine about once ...