REM sleep is essential for short-term resilience and long-term health. Experts share tips for the best way to get more of ...

(CNN) -- Spending less time in REM sleep is linked to a greater overall risk of death from any cause as well as from cardiovascular disease and other diseases except for cancer, a new study finds.

RBD is marked by loss of REM sleep atonia, leading to physical dream enactment. Polysomnography is essential to confirm RBD and rule out other disorders. Idiopathic RBD is a strong predictor of ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

Any sleep tracker will show you that slumber is far from a passive affair. And no stage of sleep demonstrates that better than rapid eye movement, or REM, commonly called dream sleep. “It’s also ...

On a December evening in 1951, Eugene Aserinsky, a physiologist at the University of Chicago, placed electrodes on the scalp of his 8-year-old son, Armond, before putting him to bed. Then the ...

Sleep latency, or sleep onset latency, is the time it takes for you to go from being fully awake to sleeping. Sleep latency and the time it takes to reach rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) are ...

There's nothing quite as good for your health and well-being as getting good, quality rest. It can work wonders for your body and mind and there's a lot of research around sleep and its importance in ...