Discover why sleep is more powerful than you think—and how a lack of it can quietly impact everything from your mood to long‑term brain health.

Do you know why scientists say it's so important to get a full night's sleep? New research shows it can add years to life. For adults there is the perfect sleep prescription and why students preparing ...

Since the first issue of the journal Sleep was published back in 1978, over 300,000 research studies have dug into the science of sleep. Many of these have been “single-association” studies, which ...

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 ...

Examining 50 years of sleep research, a University of Houston psychologist finds that losing sleep has the power to make us unhappy, increase anxiety, degrade mood and altogether undermine our ...

Sleep experts and others routinely say that parents have to start early to establish “good sleep habits” to prevent big, scary problems later. Feeding to sleep, rocking to sleep, and holding to sleep ...

Insomnia sufferers often find themselves trying everything under the sun in a frustrating and seemingly futile attempt to get a good night's sleep. However, these all-consuming efforts may be doing ...