Researchers at Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas have identified a specific feature of sleep that helps older adults regulate anxiety overnight - and shown that, as it ...

In cognitively unimpaired adults aged 55 to 75, plasma amyloid-beta levels were consistently associated with shorter and less ...

As humans grow older, their emotional stability and sleep patterns can change significantly. For instance, some past studies have found that many older adults find it harder to manage negative ...

Sleep scientists Eti Ben Simon, PhD, and Matt Walker, PhD, pose for a photo at a warmly lit reception, celebrating the launch of the Sleep Innovation Laboratories at Center for BrainHealth, part of UT ...

In a reward-free touchscreen game, Japanese macaques favored a button that made a puppet pop up in somewhat unpredictable spots, like curious humans. Menopause before 40 was tied to a 30% higher risk ...

Parents and doctors often think about children’s sleep all wrong, says psychologist Jessica Lunsford-Avery. Instead of focusing on quantity of hours, they should pay more attention to quality of rest.

Each morning, your brain embarks on a remarkable series of events: it transitions from being asleep, potentially in an alternate reality, to waking up. Within a short time, you regain waking ...

New research reveals that slow spindle density and slow oscillation coupling during a daytime nap are linked to speech-sound ...