Adults with ADHD experience more frequent "sleep-like" brain activity while awake, driving lapses in attention and task errors.

Adults with combined-type ADHD show distinct patterns of sleep-like slow-wave brain activity while fully awake, and those patterns track with attention failures and cognitive dysfunction. The finding ...

As humans grow older, their emotional stability and sleep patterns can change significantly. For instance, some past studies have found that many older adults find it harder to manage negative ...

It could help to explain differences in sustained attention.

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

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 ...

Growing evidence suggests that getting enough high-quality sleep may help protect against memory problems later in life, ...

Today is National Napping Day, so after your afternoon snooze, learn a bit about how sleep changes as we age. When you were ...

Explore neuroscience breakthroughs reshaping treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, PTSD, and other brain disorders.

Sleep medicine physicians break down how much REM sleep you should be getting each night, plus why it matters, and what it ...