Adolescents are chronically sleep deprived on school days, which negatively impacts their well-being and ability to learn. A new study conducted by the University of Zurich and the University Children ...

Our brains have an extraordinary ability to adapt and learn, a process known as neuroplasticity. From navigating a new city to mastering a new skill, neuroplasticity allows us to reshape our neural ...

Starting school later helps teenagers get more sleep, improves well-being, and supports stronger academic performance.

Parents know that perhaps the toughest part of having young children is getting them to take their naps. Although those precious few minutes, or hopefully even hours, are crucial for the stability of ...

Research undertaken over the last century has revealed that sleep plays a role in the mechanisms directing normal cognitive and developmental processes, including the consolidation of memories. This ...

Sleep is one of medicine's underused data streams. Clinically, disturbed sleep has often been treated as a symptom of a disorder, but sleep is also a physiological state in which brain, cardiac, ...

A neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Alberta presented his research on the neural mechanisms of ...

Horses with more than 30 minutes of REM sleep per night show greater motivation and perseverance in demanding learning tasks ...

Just as for humans, sufficient sleep supports learning and coping for horses. A recent study at the University of Helsinki ...