And now, a study published in Communications Biology has found that caffeine, found in tea and coffee, could lead to some brain changes during sleep – especially during sleep outside of the rapid eye ...

I T IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate ...

Individuals in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than people in non-industrialised ones, but their circadian rhythms are more out of sync ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is launching the first sleep registry in the country for children using Apple Watch as ...

According to Dr. Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, a more precise ...

Hand-painting the electrodes and wires and then drying them with a hair dryer takes a total of around 25 min, she says, after which they can accurately measure brain signals for up to 72 h.

Medicare covers sleep tests for certain conditions such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or parasomnia, but limitations may apply.

In the study, published Wednesday in online journal Neurology, researchers found people with poor sleep quality have more signs of poor brain health in late middle age.

Heat makes it harder to sleep. In Baghdad, some neighbors set up mattresses on their roof to find a cool sleeping spot. A new study finds the risk of sleep apnea goes up along with temperatures.

I called a sleep doctor, who gave me the implications in plain terms: “If you don’t get this treated, you’re probably going to die early,” she said. Sleep apnea is no joke.

Diet, exercise and sleep are fundamental to our health, but so it our relationship to light. A massive, new study suggests light-driven disruption can take years off our lives.