sleep
Study Shows How Late-Night Tweeting Causes Professional Athletes To Drop the Ball
A recent study shows that NBA players performed worse in games where they had spent the previous night staying up late and Tweeting.
Fall Asleep and Wake Up Refreshed On This High-Tech Pillow
If you're constantly tired because you can't break your bad sleeping patterns, this super smart Sunrise Pillow might put you back in the game.
We’ve “Outsmarted” Nature’s Cycles—And It’s Disrupting Our Mental Health
A "new" field of medicine called chronotherapy demonstrates that following nature's cycles, as our ancestors did, is integral to proper biological and cognitive function.
Explained: How memories are ‘pruned’ during sleep
The pair of papers suggest that sleep is crucial in order to wipe out memories. Yep – it turns out that, sometimes, it's smart to forget.
Dr Emeran Mayer: Your Gut Processes Emotion and Regulates Health While You Sleep
Your brain isn't the only organ processing your day while you sleep. Dr. Emeran Mayer explains the circular processing of emotion and memory that goes on between your brain and your digestive system, and how the latter can "dream".
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Practicing Skills In Your Sleep Can Be as Effective as Physical Training
Just imagining movement fires the same neurons as if we were actually moving. A new study shows we can wake our sleeping mind to practice motor skills in our dreams.
With Polyphasic Sleep, You Can Thrive on as Little as Two Hours per Night
Nikola Tesla, Franz Kafka, and Winston Churchill all practiced polyphasic sleep.