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Everything’s a little off when you haven’t had any sleep: you can’t remember where you put your cell phone, your eyes burn, ...

While zoning out occasionally happened after a full night's slumber, it was much more common after the participants had ...

Large oscillations of CSF inflow to the brain appeared about every 20 seconds and were tightly coupled to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals of blood flow and electroencephalogram ...

New research shows that during moments of lost focus after poor sleep, the brain releases a wave of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)—the same cleansing process that normally occurs during deep sleep.

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which cushions the brain and spinal cord and removes accumulated waste, plays a crucial role in ...

We spend about one-third of our lives asleep, and yet, the secret of how our brain falls asleep remains one of the greatest ...

It turns out that when you’re running low on sleep, your brain is actually working overtime. A new MIT study shows that when ...