Sleep spindles—brief bursts of brain activity crucial for memory and sleep stability—are guided primarily by short-term ...

Michael J. Prerau, Ph.D., of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the senior ...

How would you summarize your study for a lay audience?Our research focuses on sleep spindles—short bursts of brain activity during sleep that are ...

Sleep spindle oscillations consist of waxing–and–waning field potentials of 7 to 14 Hz, which last 1 to 3 seconds and recur every 5 to 15 seconds. These oscillations are generated in the ...

Michael J. Prerau, PhD, of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in PNAS, “Individualized temporal patterns drive ...

said sleep-based improvements were linked to the coupling of slow oscillations and sleep spindles — brainwave patterns that synchronize during NREM sleep. Cross, who earned his PhD at the ...

People wanting to learn a new language should make sure they get plenty of sleep, according to a new sleep study that taught ...

According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, breathing rhythms during sleep are linked to "slow spindles" brain waves in the hippocampus-- an area of ...

A new study reveals that breathing acts as a conductor, coordinating brain waves during sleep to consolidate memories. Researchers found that slow spindle brain waves in the hippocampus ...