New research from Weizmann Institute, published in Nature Neuroscience has discovered that people can actually learn during sleep, which can unconsciously modify their behaviour while awake.
Sleep
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28 August, 2012
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3 January, 2011
People who sleep more than eight hours a night, snore or feel drowsy during the day run a higher risk of having a stroke, according to a New York research team.
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3 January, 2011
Clearly, inadequate sleep at night gives rise to daytime sleepiness, but this article discusses tiredness/sleepiness occurring after a good night's sleep. For most adults, a normal night's sleep lasts about 8 hours and is composed of 4-6 separate sleep cycles.
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3 January, 2011
The answer to “What really goes on while we are asleep” is more than anyone ever dreamed of. The more researchers study sleep and dreams, the more complicated things turn out to be. A simple answer like "We sleep to rest our bodies and brains" just doesn't account for all the things that
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3 January, 2011
Moreover, sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just beginning to understand.
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4 January, 2010
In 1865 Friedrich August Kekulé woke up from a strange dream: he imagined a snake forming a circle and biting its own tail. Like many organic chemists of the time, Kekulé had been working feverishly to describe the true chemical structure of benzene, a problem that continually eluded