Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to ...

Last week's article discussed the connection between brain health and exercise/movement. I want to emphasize one more chapter from John Medinan’s book "Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and ...

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Dopamine neurons—the cells that drive reward and motivation while we're awake—become surprisingly active during nonrapid eye movement sleep right after we learn something new. The findings challenge ...

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 ...

One of sleep’s key functions is to stabilize and integrate new memories into our brain’s long-term memory systems, a process known as "consolidation." This idea is now widely accepted, though it ...

Are you impulsive when it comes to making decisions? Or do you say, “Let me sleep on it”? Well, if you belong to the second category, you might be really doing your brain a favour. Sleeping on it ...