Understanding the associations between adequate sleep, performance and health
outcomes is vital, yet a major limitation in the design and interpretation of studies of sleep …

Standard polysomnographic analysis of sleep has not provided evidence of an objective
measure of sleep quality; however, factors such as sleep duration and sleep efficiency are …

The human body cycles through 2 phases of sleep,(1) rapid eye movement (REM) and (2)
nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, which is further divided into 3 stages—N1 to N3 …

Background Auditory stimulation has emerged as a promising tool to enhance non-
invasively sleep slow waves, deep sleep brain oscillations that are tightly linked to sleep …

Multiple studies have examined associations between sleep and cognition in older adults,
but a majority of these depend on self-reports on sleep and utilize cognitive tests that assess …

Common human experience is that a long period without sleep is unsustainable, and it is
also detrimental to health and behavior. The powerful and primal urge to sleep after sleep …

We sought to determine which facets of sleep neurophysiology were most strongly linked to
cognitive performance in 3,819 older adults from two independent cohorts, using whole …

What accounts for feeling deeply asleep? Standard sleep recordings only incompletely
reflect subjective aspects of sleep and some individuals with so-called sleep misperception …

The mechanisms by which sleep benefits learning and memory remain unclear. Sleep may
further strengthen the synapses potentiated by learning or promote broad synaptic …

Disturbances of the sleep-wake cycle are highly prevalent and diverse. The aetiology of
some sleep disorders, such as circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, is understood at the …