Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter ...

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

Allowing your mind to wander while engaged in a simple task may actually help improve learning, according to the findings of ...

The Synaptic Physiology laboratory, led by Juan Lerma at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of ...

Researchers in Canada surveyed 1,082 university students about their eating habits, sleep patterns and dreams.  Remarkably, 40% reported that certain foods affected their sleep. Of that group, 20% ...

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ...

Light pollution, or artificial light at night (ALAN), is a widespread phenomenon in areas with dense human populations. Normally, animals use natural external cues, like sunlight and temperature, to ...

Noninvasive brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial direct current stimulation, are effective nonpharmacologic treatments for insomnia.