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A patch the size of a Band-Aid, stuck to your forehead, can now do something no traditional sleep study or fitness tracker can: nudge your brain toward a better night's sleep. William Coon, a sleep ...

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at the University of Oulu have developed a method that allows the increased ...

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Acharya Balkrishna explains how sleep loss affects memory, focus, mood and decision-making, and why worry can make poor sleep ...

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During sleep, the brain weakens the new connections between neurons that had been forged while awake -- but only during the first half of a night's sleep, according to a new study. During sleep, the ...

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