Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

Daytime sleepiness, sleep deprivation, and irregular sleep schedules are highly prevalent
among college students, as 50% report daytime sleepiness and 70% attain insufficient …

Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are
substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep …

Until recently, the electrophysiological mechanisms involved in strengthening new
memories into a more permanent form during sleep have been largely unknown. The sleep …

Sleep has been implicated in the plastic cerebral changes that underlie learning and
memory. Indications that sleep participates in the consolidation of fresh memory traces come …

While the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting and
contentious hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to memory. A large number of …

Although the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting
hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to processes of memory and brain plasticity …

Several theories claim that dreaming is a random by-product of REM sleep physiology and
that it does not serve any natural function. Phenomenal dream content, however, is not as …

Converging evidence and new research methodologies from across the neurosciences
permit the neuroscientific study of the role of sleep in off-line memory reprocessing, as well …

The negative effects of sleep difficulties have been well documented. However, the
prevalence of such problems among US college students has not been well studied. Design …