Automatic sleep stage classification employs advanced machine learning, particularly deep learning, to segment sleep recordings into distinct stages—wakefulness, light sleep, deep sleep and rapid eye ...

Sleep is a rare activity that gets harder in adulthood. While we've usually mastered the struggles involved with tying our shoes, learning the multiplication tables, and even driving a vehicle by the ...

In the cerebral cortex, numerous neurons exchange information through junctions known as synapses. The strength of each synaptic connection changes depending on the activity levels of the neurons ...

Memory formation, storage, and retrieval are fundamental processes that define who we are and how we interact with the world. At the cellular level, these processes rely on specialized neurons called ...

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Sleep, memory and learning. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For further ...

Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

Your sleep schedule may matter more for longevity than your diet or workouts. Here’s what two major 2026 studies found.

Do you struggle with body clock problems and getting a good night's sleep? Well, fear not because researchers from the University of Surrey and the University of Groningen may have found a solution ...

We spend roughly a third of our lives doing something that, for most of history, scientists treated as a kind of placeholder — a passive state between the real work of being awake. That assumption has ...

New research reveals insight into the impact sleep quality has on a person’s immune system, and how it could be linked to the development of diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular ...