Imagine you got a rough night of sleep. Perhaps you went to bed too late, needed to wake up early or still felt tired when ...

Introduction Sleep problems are an escalating global health concern, with prevalence estimates ranging from 8.3% to 45%. Physicians are disproportionately affected, with rates around 44% compared with ...

Researchers at Washington State University have uncovered evidence that sleep may not be entirely a function of the brain but also the microbes living within us. They discovered that bacterial cell ...

“I didn’t expect it to be so strongly correlated to life expectancy,” McHill said. “We’ve always thought sleep is important, ...

A new study shows that precisely manipulating brain activity during sleep can help mice retain memories that would normally fade, offering a potential pathway for treating memory loss conditions.

Manipulating mouse brains during sleep improved their ability to remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten—a ...

West Metro Fire Rescue will shift firefighter start times from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. after a sleep study revealed early shifts ...

UVA clinical psychologist Claudia Allen says delaying a child’s first phone can help reduce the dangers of depression, ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.

The research found that women who showed increasing daytime sleepiness over five years had double the risk of getting dementia compared to women with stable sleep patterns. However, the study only ...