Everyone has heard that it’s vital to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, a recommendation repeated so often it has ...

Staying up all night to prepare for an exam may not be much help to students, because memory can be impaired by many things, including sleep deprivation. New research has suggested, however, that the ...

In 5xFAD mice lacking functional TREM2, sleep loss barely affected plaque load, nor did it incite microglia to surround plaques. This might be because TREM2-deficient mice already had more plaques ...

As a result, chronic sleep deprivation can have serious health consequences. Most of what we know about sleep and sleep deprivation stems from a model proposed in the 1970s by a Hungarian-Swiss ...

“They’re focusing more on the short-term effects of sleep deprivation, which might not closely model humans with years and years and years of sleepless nights,” he says. Journal reference ...

More information: Samira Parhizkar et al, Lemborexant ameliorates tau-mediated sleep loss and neurodegeneration in males in a mouse model of tauopathy, Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

As a result, chronic sleep deprivation can have serious health consequences. Most of what we know about sleep and sleep deprivation stems from a model proposed in the 1970s by a Hungarian-Swiss ...

One Night of Sleep Deprivation Can Fight Depression for Days, New Research in Mice Finds A new study suggests that a single night of sleeplessness can result in mood improvements that last for days.

Compared to the more than 1,100 significant changes in hippocampal gene expression seen in male mice following acute sleep deprivation, we found only 99 genes in the hippocampus exhibited ...

New animal research in mice suggests that sleep deprivation may be associated with a greater risk for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease in older adults.

Sleep deprivation could relieve depression but only temporarily, says study, as doctors share warnings Experts warn that people shouldn’t pull all-nighters to boost mood: ‘Negative consequences’ ...

Researchers also noted that sleep deprivation in young mice completely impaired their performance in a learning memory task, whereas adults were far more resilient after sleep loss.