Theta waves are one of the five types of electrical pulses your brain produces. They tend to happen when you’re lightly sleeping, dreaming, or in a state of deep relaxation. Experts believe they play ...

Apple Music Therapy takes those background sounds to a new level by adding them to popular music from the streaming service. The songs are by artists Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, ...

This is a power spectrogram showing the changes in the neural activity of the hippocampus during sleep. The power of each frequency is plotted on the vertical axis with colors ranging from blue (lower ...

A device sold online to stimulate brain wave activity enhances theta wave activity in the brain and boosted performance on a memory test, UC Davis neuroscientists found. (Getty Images) The entrainment ...

There’s no shortage of apps and technology that claim to shift the brain into a “theta” state – said to help with relaxation, inward focus and sleep. But what exactly does it mean to change one’s ...

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