Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

Valerie Cacho, MD, is a board-certified sleep medicine specialist and the founder of the online educational company Sleephoria. Make sure you follow a consistent sleep schedule to help regulate your ...

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is one of four stages the brain moves through while sleeping. In REM sleep, the eyes move rapidly in various directions and dreams can occur. REM sleep typically starts ...

A 2021 phone poll revealed that only 34% of Americans "sometimes" remember their dreams. About 1 in 10 say they "almost always" can, and the same percentage say they "never" do. Explanations for such ...

RBD is marked by loss of REM sleep atonia, leading to physical dream enactment. Polysomnography is essential to confirm RBD and rule out other disorders. Idiopathic RBD is a strong predictor of ...

We know how, but not why, the brain is activated in sleep. I suggest that brain activation in sleep allows the development and maintenance of circuits necessary for higher brain functions, including ...

Montreal’s REM was experiencing technical issues and service was down for about an hour on the Deux-Montagnes line Wednesday ...