A new pooled analysis led by UCSF researchers suggests that how your brain looks during sleep, its so‑called brain age, may help predict who goes on to develop dementia. In roughly 7,100 U.S. adults ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found that machine-learning analysis of brain waves recorded during sleep can identify women at risk of cognitive decline up to five ...

In many parts of the country, children and their parents face months-long wait times for sleep tests at labs. With obesity rising among the pediatric population, at-home sleep tests to assess sleep ...

Bye bye sleep lab: An engineer is redesigning sleep studies, so they can be done at home without all the cumbersome wires dangling all over your body. Instead, only two wires needed. University of ...

Insufficient sleep is one of the strongest predictors of shorter life expectancy in the U.S., surpassed only by smoking. That's according to a new nationwide analysis published in the journal SLEEP ...

Can caffeine save your social life? New research shows how caffeine restores social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by targeting the hippocampal CA2 region. Learn about the molecular mechanisms ...