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In a 2026 case report from China, a 34-year-old woman with mild intellectual disability was sent for evaluation of possible narcolepsy. Sleep testing and EEG instead showed epilepsy and mode…
Read articleA 2026 PLOS Biology study using 256-electrode EEG and 1,024 NREM2 awakenings found that immersive dreaming predicted deeper subjective sleep, beta = 0.277, while reflective thought predicted…
Read articleDaytime agitation in dementia fluctuates day-to-day, and a 2026 explanatory study from Liu et al. used contactless under-mattress sensors in 55 long-term-care residents and an external 17-pe…
Read articleGLP-1 receptor agonists (semaglutide, liraglutide, tirzepatide) act on the brain as well as the gut, and a 2026 real-world cohort study from Kamel-Abusalha et al. propensity-matched 118,993 …
Read articleRestless legs syndrome (RLS), now also called Willis-Ekbom disease (WED), is a sleep-disrupting neurologic disorder that affects roughly 20–30% of pregnancies in some series and is linked to…
Read articleA 2025 iScience study found that nighttime caffeine increased motor impulsivity in Drosophila, with dose-dependent loss-of-inhibition events across n = 30-32 flies per behavioral condition a…
Read articleA 2026 meta-analysis of 4 randomized trials found that GLP-1 receptor agonists reduced obstructive sleep apnea severity by 13.89 apnea-hypopnea events per hour compared with placebo, alongsi…
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