Research has resulted in a new method of screening for sleep disorders in children. The tool, the first of its kind, allows health professionals to assess children for multiple sleep problems at once, ...

Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down ...

For the past century, the University of Chicago has been a pioneer in sleep research—from opening the world’s first laboratory devoted to sleep research to discovering REM sleep. Today, UChicago ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more intricate.