If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial housekeeping.

Published in Brain Stimulation, the Baycrest/Rotman team used fMRI to show rapid CSF dynamics changes after brief pulsed PBM sessions.

Pulsatile CSF flow dynamics increase during epochs with slower reaction times and attentional failures. (CREDIT: Nature) By 10 a.m., having had no sleep, subjects were lying in MRI scanners engaging ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists ...

Brain's nightly cleaning cycle, crucial for clearing waste like beta-amyloid, falters with sleep loss. This disruption ...

Medical News Today looks at three key studies and their key findings that highlight and further confirm the connection ...