Tag: Slow-wave sleep

  • Nation & World

    What wakes me

    Clifford Saper, chair of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently discovered a brainstem area that senses oxygen dips and drives waking.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Giving phobias a rest

    A Harvard-led research team has found that exposure therapy for irrational fear of spiders seems to be more effective if it is followed by sleep, according to a recent study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

    4 minutes