A multi-disciplinary team has found that depriving lab mice of sleep can lead to a reduction in synapse diversity in the brain. In their study, published on the open-access site Current Biology ...

Health experts have cautioned that three signs when you wake up could mean you are at risk of developing dementia. A ...

Trouble sleeping is common in other neurodegenerative diseases, but past research has only suggested that it occurs in ...

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 ...

This confirmed the researcher's hypothesis that the younger mice might be more susceptible to the harmful effects of sleep deprivation. Researchers also noted that sleep deprivation in young mice ...

Although the zolpidem-treated mice fell asleep more quickly ... of the National Academy of Sciences, found that sleep deprivation weakens the brain’s defense against unwanted memories ...

4 In mice that did not undergo the learned helplessness protocol, sleep deprivation produced different behaviors: Unslept male mice displayed hyperactivity, increased aggression towards unfamiliar ...

In mice, the brain’s main glial cell type exhibits distinctive patterns of activity across the sleep-wake cycle and influences the response to sleep deprivation. Accumulation of the protein was more ...

They have identified a molecular mechanism by which brief sleep deprivation alters hippocampal function in mice, involving the impairment of cyclic-AMP- and protein-kinase-A-dependent forms of ...