We’re aware that a good night’s sleep helps to restore energy, but a new study in rats and mice, carried by scientists at Cornell University, has found that sleep also resets another vital function, ...

Many people take medicines every day without thinking too much about their long-term effects. These medicines help manage common health problems like allergies, high blood pressure, depression, and ...

SEATTLE — There's new hope for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. A new medication called donanemab appears to slow memory loss, giving patients the gift of more time. UW Medicine's ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have demonstrated that caffeine can restore social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by ...

A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine may change the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of neurons that respond to learning events and ...

Medicines called benzodiazepines are often used to treat anxiety and sleep problems. Many people take them to feel calmer or to help them fall asleep. These drugs can work very quickly and are helpful ...

Scientists discovered that high-fat junk food disrupts memory circuits in the brain almost immediately. Within just four days, neurons in the hippocampus became overactive, impairing memory. Restoring ...

If you’ve ever put in long hours studying for final exams or perfecting a presentation for a client, you’ve probably found yourself wishing for an extra jolt of brain power. Nootropics are often ...

Associate Professor Sajikumar Sreedharan and Dr Wong Lik-Wei in front of their electrophysiology setup, with hippocampal signals recorded from sleep-deprived laboratory models. Researchers at the Yong ...