Muse by Interaxon today announced Smart Wakeup, the newest addition to its Sleep, by Design platform. Smart Wakeup monitors brain activity in real time and times a gentle audio wake-up to lighter ...

Turning our clocks ahead next weekend, will rob us all of an hour – as we are sleeping. With World Sleep Day coming up on Friday (March 13), and in honor of Brain Awareness Week that starts Monday ...

Working seems especially hard in the summer. As I write this, it’s 73 degrees outside without a single cloud. I catch myself staring out the window for minutes at a time, thinking about reading and ...

When you’re asleep, you can seem completely dead to the world. But when you wake up, in an instant you can be up and at ‘em. How does the brain turn on awareness or consciousness? This question has ...

A machine-learning analysis of brain waves recorded during sleep may help identify people at high risk of developing dementia, according to a study led by UC San Francisco and Beth Israel Deaconess ...