Like Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein, today’s committed daytime snoozers often sneak in short rest breaks because they ...

Eating the right foods throughout the day could be the key to a good night’s rest. A growing body of research has found that some foods can help your body produce optimal levels of hormones that ...

A hypnic jerk is a sudden involuntary twitch or muscle contraction that occurs as you fall asleep. Also known as sleep starts, these hypnic jerks may jolt the entire body or affect only one part, like ...

Researchers from University of Tsukuba have identified significant discrepancies between subjective and objective assessments of sleep. The study revealed that 66% of individuals who perceived their ...

If you've made a New Year's resolution to improve your sleep, you might consider trying out a sleep tracker. A sleep tracker might not help you fall asleep faster, make your slumber longer ...

Hauglund is the first author of another study, which appears in the journal Cell, and that, for the first time, describes the synchronized oscillations during sleep that power the brain’s ...

The study was published Jan. 9 in the journal Annals of Neurology. RBD is a fairly common sleep disorder which affects an estimated one million Americans. In many cases, the disorder is an early ...

The diary of the dead man, published by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, described the reckless tactic along with expressions of love for Kim Jong-un and a “longing” to return to his ...

There is plenty of debate in the sleep field about the benefits vs. costs of napping and how best to structure naps. This editorial in the journal Sleep by Sara Mednick urges us to take a nuanced ...