Trouble sleeping is common in other neurodegenerative diseases, but past research has only suggested that it occurs in ...

A good night's sleep does more than just help you feel rested--it might literally clear your mind. A new study shows how deep sleep may wash away waste buildup in the brain during waking hours ...

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance ...

A common sleep medication prevents mice from effectively clearing away waste and toxins from their brain during sleep ...

Through their joint lab, Oliva and Fernandez-Ruiz used their combined expertise in animal behavior, technology development and computational analysis to see just what goes on in a sleeping mouse’s eye ...

Either way, scientists didn’t understand how the waste-removal system might be driven during sleep—until now. The new study reveals that, during a mouse’s non-rapid eye movement (non-REM ...

Drugs like the main ingredient in Ambien, zolpidem, suppresses a system designed to clear protein waste from the brain during ...