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 ...

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 ...

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

finding that sleep deprivation impacts young mice far more severely than adults. Published in the Proceedings of the National ...

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 ...

After 12 hours of sleep deprivation, these depressive like effects disappeared. In terms of restoration of escape behaviors, a single night without sleep appeared to be about as potent as ketamine ...

During a good night’s sleep, the brain gets busy cleaning itself, flushing out waste products that have built up during the day. A study in mice shows how a molecule called noradrenaline ...

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 ...

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 ...