Trouble sleeping is common in other neurodegenerative diseases, but past research has only suggested that it occurs in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Now, a new study has not only ...

Do your eyes play a role in where you look in your dreams? PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are ...

Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the ...

When our eyes move during REM sleep, we’re gazing at things in the dream world our brains have created, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings shed light not only ...

UCSF researcher Massimo Scanziani, PhD, discusses the study of rapid eye movement (REM) with physiology postdoctoral scholar Yuta Senzai, PhD. On the screen behind them are images showing eye ...

A team has discovered that, in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease, restoring normal sleep by returning to normal the activity of the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), a brain region involved in ...

Kyoto, Japan -- What we see in front of us is what our brains tell us it sees. Our eyes capture visual stimuli which are converted into an image, to which the brain responds by organizing neurons into ...