Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

The interest in the systematic study of the circadian typology (CT) is relatively recent and has
developed rapidly in the two last decades. All the existing data suggest that this individual …

Melatonin, the neurohormone of the pineal gland, is also produced by various other tissues
and cells. It acts via G protein-coupled receptors expressed in various areas of the central …

Sleep deprivation is associated with considerable social, financial, and health-related costs,
in large measure because it produces impaired cognitive performance due to increasing …

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 5th Edition, by Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC,
Thomas Roth, PhD, and William C. Dement, MD, PhD, delivers the comprehensive …

Much of the current science on, and mathematical modeling of, dynamic changes in human
performance within and between days is dominated by the two-process model of sleep …

The sleep–wake cycle and circadian rhythmicity both contribute to brain function, but
whether this contribution differs between men and women and how it varies across cognitive …

Background Cognitive performance deteriorates during extended wakefulness and
circadian phase misalignment, and some individuals are more affected than others. Whether …

Virtually every eukaryotic cell has an endogenous circadian clock and a biological sex.
These cell-based clocks have been conceptualized as oscillators whose phase can be reset …

Daily rhythms in behavior and physiology are programmed by a hierarchical collection of
biological clocks located throughout the brain and body, known as the circadian system …