A team from Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian discovered signs of hidden consciousness can be detected using ...

Little is known about the associated brain activation during these sleep rhythms, and even less about their functional implications. In this study, we investigated the brain-wide activation underlying ...

The locus coeruleus noradrenergic system could offer a promising avenue for treating insomnia with medication, especially in ...

Researchers found that sleep spindles, brief bursts of brain activity, may predict recovery in unresponsive brain injury ...

With commercial EEG hardware, [Michael] is able to communicate ... he’s busy writing an algorithm that will detect REM sleep and play an audio track while he’s in a dream state to trigger ...

Sleep has different stages. If you do an EEG of a person, there are four stages of sleep and then there is a separate sleep called REM sleep, rapid eye movement sleep. And the dreaming happens in ...

REM sleep also seems essential for regulating mood ... The action in dream sleep takes place too deep in the brain to register well on an EEG, but with newer technology, we’ve inferred what ...

Delayed REM sleep may be a potential indication of early ... But wearable devices like smartwatches and EEG headsets (devices for measuring brain activity) can estimate the timing and length ...

EEG can be used in cognitive research or to diagnose conditions such as epilepsy and sleep disorders. Creating durable, motion-compliant neural interfaces is essential for accessing dynamic ...

Several studies in the past decade have revealed that up to a quarter of unresponsive patients with recent brain injuries may possess a degree of consciousness that's normally hidden from their ...