sleep

1. December 12, 2022

   U-M researchers leading partnership studying mental fatigue

   U-M researchers are leading a multiuniversity partnership, funded with a $6.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, that aims to understand and predict cognitive fatigue in individuals.

2. March 1, 2021

   New challenge encourages participants to get better sleep

   To help members of the U-M community improve their sleep habits, MHealthy has launched Good Night, Sleep Right, a new eight-week online challenge. Registration is open, and the challenge starts March 15.

3. February 24, 2021

   Sleep vital to associating emotion with memory, study shows

   U-M researchers have been studying how memories associated with a specific sensory event are formed and stored in mice. They found that neurons activated by the visual stimulus keep more active during subsequent sleep.

4. May 8, 2018

   University part of project examining sleep consolidation

   A U-M researcher is part of an international team that received a $1 million grant to investigate how adult humans consolidate their sleep into a single, approximately eight-hour bout.

5. May 9, 2016

   Smartphones help researchers uncover how the world sleeps

   A pioneering study of worldwide sleep patterns combines math modeling, mobile apps and big data to parse the roles society and biology each play in setting sleep schedules.