Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, ...

Not all sleeping pills are the same. Each class of sleep aid works a bit differently from the other, and side effects vary. It's important to ask key questions before choosing your sleep medicine.

The team plans to investigate the long-term effects of sleeping pills on the brain's ability to clear its nighttime sleep, but if this proves problematic, it may become necessary to develop new ...

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Sleeping pills may impact the brain’s ability to ‘cleanse’ itself during sleep, new research suggests. A study, which looked into what happens in mice when the brain sleeps, found that zolpidem (a ...