Sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and its loss impairs cognition. But why does the brain
need to disconnect from the environment for hours every day? The synaptic homeostasis …

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 …

The Mediterranean diet is a plant-based, antioxidant-rich, unsaturated fat dietary pattern that
has been consistently associated with lower rates of noncommunicable diseases and total …

This review summarizes the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and wakefulness.
Wakefulness promoting systems cause low-voltage, fast activity in the …

There currently exists a modern epidemic of sleep loss, triggered by the changing demands
of our 21st century lifestyle that embrace 'round-the-clock'remote working hours, access to …

The need to sleep grows with the duration of wakefulness and dissipates with time spent
asleep, a process called sleep homeostasis. What are the consequences of staying awake …

The protein brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a member of the neurotrophin family
of growth factors involved in plasticity of neurons in several brain regions. There are …

From a neurobiological perspective there is no such thing as bipolar disorder. Rather, it is
almost certainly the case that many somewhat similar, but subtly different, pathological …

Interleukin-1 beta (IL1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) promote non-rapid eye
movement sleep under physiological and inflammatory conditions. Additional cytokines are …

Evidence that electroencephalography (EEG) slow-wave activity (SWA)(EEG spectral power
in the 1–4.5 Hz band) during non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM) reflects plastic …