Chronic sleep restriction to under seven hours nightly significantly impairs cognitive functions, including reaction time and ...

A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) ...

Sleep is essential for health, yet modern lifestyles disrupt it, causing long-term effects. Insufficient sleep affects ...

While you’re asleep, your brain is busy undergoing a restorative reset. The glymphatic system clears out toxins and metabolic waste, while short-term memories are filed in the neocortex. At the same ...

More than a third of U.S. adults don’t get enough sleep, leading to what has been described as a public-health epidemic.

A recent study suggested that concentration of peptidoglycan seems to increase in periods of sleep deprivation. This is a sign that the gut microbiota might play a role in sleep quality.

In an interview, internal medicine specialist explains how chronic sleep loss slowly destabilises the body from the brain to the heart.

Consistently sleeping nine or more hours can signal deeper health issues, leaving individuals feeling groggy and unfocused.

In today’s hectic world, sleep is sometimes seen as a luxury, yet it is really one of the most important components of general welfare. While most individuals are aware that sleep aids in the body’s ...

Historically scientists have thought it unlikely that gut microbes affect physiological sleep regulation. The recent study, ...

Sleep is one of the essential physiological needs for human survival, alongside food, water and air. But sleep is socially driven, influenced by ...