Researchers discovered that ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels in the brain play a pivotal role in sleep regulation. These energy sensors help maintain sleep-wake cycles and smooth transitions ...

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Sleep reorganizes neural patterns in a way that helps memories take hold and prepares the brain for new information.

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Sleep disturbances may accelerate neurodegeneration, but whether they cause or result from disease remains unclear. Improving ...

Sleep tracking on smartwatches keeps getting more complicated, but Google's sleep lead has even more ambitious dreams of what ...

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"Deep sleep builds your immune system, and REM sleep regulates and fine-tunes it," says Darwall-Smith agrees. During deep ...

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