Friends, let's talk about one of the most confusing terms you’ll see on your fitness tracker—specifically your Apple Watch. Next to REM sleep, which you’ve probably heard of, and “deep ...

The Sleep Whisperer is a new series of columns offering insights and advice about sleep health. It is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care. On March 14, advocates for better ...

Researchers discovered a potential correlation between comatose patients' brain activity during sleep and chances of recovery. © DC Studio via Freepik It is ...

Sleep spindles on electroencephalography (EEG) helped predict whether unresponsive patients with acute brain injury would recover, prospective data showed. In a cohort of behaviorally unresponsive ...

The key to getting good sleep is understanding how it works. But it's a complicated thing. And, while we usually hyperfocus on sleep duration, counting the hours of rest we get and assuming the ...

These bursts -- called sleep spindles -- often preceded the detection of cognitive motor dissociation with the more complex method, the return of consciousness, and long-term recovery.

"The electrical activity during sleep looks relatively chaotic and then occasionally in some patients, these (bursts of) very organised, fast frequencies appear," said lead researcher Jan Claassen ...