NewsPulling an All-Nighter? Don’t Follow with an Important Decisionby University of OttawaResearch gives insight into importance of sleep on cognitive performance and emotional well-being
NewsNew Position Statement Supports Permanent Standard Timeby American Academy of Sleep MedicineDaylight saving time increases the risks to our mental and physical well-being
NewsJunk Food May Impair Our Deep Sleepby Uppsala UniversityQuality of the participants' deep sleep deteriorated after an unhealthy diet compared to a healthy one
NewsEarly Morning University Classes Correlate with Poor Academic Performanceby Duke-NUS Medical SchoolAnalysis of tens of thousands of students shows correlation between early classes, less sleep, and reduced GPA
NewsNew Study on the Circadian Clock of the Fruit Flyby University of MünsterResearchers demonstrate the importance of transporting a "clock protein" for temperature compensation
NewsArtificial Neural Networks Learn More Effectively When Designed to Mimic Human Sleepby Holden GalushaUsing “spike networks,” scientists were able to prevent an artificial neural network from overwriting information
NewsNew Material Mimics Neural Activity Associated with Learning and Memoryby Holden GalushaNew technique in neuromorphic computing opens doors for studying neural processes and may establish new computing paradigm
NewsSleeping Medications Used for Insomnia May Combat Drug and Alcohol Addictionby Rutgers UniversityResearch shows how changes in the brain promote drug-seeking behavior and why some insomnia medications may block it
NewsGetting Less Sleep Makes People Less Likely to Help Othersby PLOSThe decision to help people depends on sleep at individual, group, and even societal levels
NewsScientists Discover How Our Circadian Rhythm Can Be Both Strong and Flexibleby Institute for Basic ScienceExperiments reveal that master and slave oscillators function via different molecular mechanisms