This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD Key Takeaways: It’s common for sleep issues to increase during ...

With daylight saving time fast approaching, our sleep cycles are about to get thrown for a loop. But don’t panic — you don’t have to rely on pharmaceutical sleep aids that leave you groggy or tired.

Sleep is key to brain and body function, memory, physical performance, preventing chronic disease and improving mental health ...

REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement and it’s seen as the deepest stage of the sleep cycle. As the name states, REM sleep is ...

Researchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's 'locus coeruleus' in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM and REM ...

Time to give these so-called sleep hacks a rest? The team behind the sleep tracker Sleep Cycle crunched data from over 1 million global users to determine the social media slumber shortcuts that have ...

We’ve all been there — dragging ourselves out of bed feeling like we’ve been hit by a truck despite getting a full night’s sleep. The alarm blares, and you wonder how eight hours of rest could ...

Shortchanging your sleep makes you feel pretty crummy, but the impact is even worse than you may think. Poor sleep can weaken your immune system, leaving you more susceptible to viruses; it ups your ...

Let’s be real: most of us treat sleep like an optional luxury rather than a vital health practice. We fall asleep to blue screens, snooze our alarms half a dozen times, and wonder why we’re exhausted ...