Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

Every mom expects sleepless nights with a newborn. For those recovering from a C-section, that exhaustion may have a deeper ...

A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds and supports the brain and ...

Patients placed on mechanical ventilation are commonly put under deep sedation, to ease the stress and discomfort of having a ...

Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

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Slow brain waves propagate in a coordinated way across connected areas, guided not only by anatomy but also by neuronal excitability. The discovery was made possible thanks to an advanced ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...