An appropriate sleep environment is critical to achieve adequate quality and quantity of
sleep. General sleep hygiene recommendations suggest that individuals should maintain a …

This paper seeks to establish a framework for instantiating wellbeing in the built environment
through the lens of integrative health. Integrative health is defined as “healing-oriented …

Network dynamics have been proposed as a mechanistic substrate for the information
transfer across cortical and hippocampal circuits. However, little is known about the …

Historically, the human sense of smell has been regarded as the odd stepchild of the
senses, especially compared to the sensory bravado of seeing, touching, and hearing. The …

The mammalian olfactory bulb displays a prominent respiratory rhythm, which is linked to the
sniff cycle and is driven by sensory input from olfactory receptors in the nasal sensory …

Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology impairs cognitive function. Yet some
individuals with high amounts of AD pathology suffer marked memory impairment, while …

The affective state is the combination of emotion and mood, with mood reflecting a running
average of sequential emotional events together with an underlying internal affective state …

Slow-wave activity (SWA), and its coupling with other sleep features, reorganizes cortical
circuitry, supporting cognition. This raises the question: can cognition be improved through …

We explore the application of a wide range of sensory stimulation technologies to the area of
sleep and dream engineering. We begin by emphasizing the causal role of the body in …

Sleep quality is important to health and life quality. Lack of sleep can lead to a variety of
health issues and reduce in daytime function. Recent study by Fultz et al. also indicated that …