If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial ...

When you picture the ideal night of sleep, what comes to mind? For many people, it’s (at least) eight blissful hours of uninterrupted snoozing. There’s no sound of snoring in your ear. No ...

Sleep comprises one third of our adult life. It is essential for normal functioning; without it, we experience memory lapses, have difficulty with concentration, experience mood alterations, become ...

When you were younger, you might have thought older adults went to bed early simply because they loved quiet mornings and a ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. Natural ...

Do you ever lie in bed late at night and wonder why it is so hard for you to fall asleep? While occasional difficulties in falling asleep are common, women's health expert Kirtly Jones, MD, says ...

(Reuters Health) - New parents who struggle to get babies to sleep through the night may not be doing anything wrong, according to new research suggesting that many apparent sleep problems are really ...

Multiple studies in humans and mouse models indicate that sleep disruptions raise the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by increasing the accumulation of disease-relevant proteins such as amyloid-beta ...

Sleep talking is the weird nighttime habit of a bygone era. Who cares what unintelligible things people utter in the evening hours when probably only Alexa is listening? Instead, some researchers are ...

Researchers used a cocktail of antibiotics to deplete gut microbes in mice. They found that metabolites in the gut differed in these mice compared with controls. In particular, metabolic pathways ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if infants and children wanted to sleep exactly where we wanted to put them on a given day? No joke here – it would be wonderful, but unfortunately it’s not how most babies sleep.