Brain clears up in sleep

Brain clears up in sleep - and thus remains able to learn

Essential function of sleep clarified / sleep reduces the transmission between nerve cells and thus creates space for new and important things Still, it is not clear why people and animals sleep. Scientists of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital Freiburg show in a on August 23, 2016

What is behind the daytime tiredness?

A new EEG algorithm helps to detect if a tired patient is drowsy or over-excited. Daytime fatigue is a distressing symptom that is commonly reported in mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and sleep disorders as well as in various non-psychiatric disorders. Neuro physiologists at the University Hospital Leipzig have now developed a method that should help.