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 …

How does a lack of sleep affect our brains? In contrast to the benefits of sleep, frameworks
exploring the impact of sleep loss are relatively lacking. Importantly, the effects of sleep …

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 …

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society recently released a
Consensus Statement regarding the recommended amount of sleep to promote optimal …

Ambient temperatures are rising worldwide, with the greatest increases recorded at night.
Concurrently, the prevalence of insufficient sleep is rising in many populations. Yet it …

Sleep deprivation is commonplace in modern society, but its far-reaching effects on
cognitive performance are only beginning to be understood from a scientific perspective …

The current meta-analytic review evaluated the effects of experimentally manipulated sleep
restriction on neurocognitive functioning. Random-effects models were employed to …

Cognitive neuroscience continues to build meaningful connections between affective
behavior and human brain function. Within the biological sciences, a similar renaissance …

Sleep deprivation is associated with considerable social, financial, and health-related costs,
in large measure because it produces impaired cognitive performance due to increasing …

Sleep is a core behavior of adolescents, consuming up to a third or more of each day. As
part of this special issue on the adolescent brain, we review changes to sleep behaviors and …