Waking up tired despite getting enough sleep? Only specific sleep phases grant restorative rest, and you might be missing out ...

To optimize productivity, maintain a consistent sleep schedule, avoid disruptions, and aim for 7-9 hours of quality sleep per ...

Once you drift off, your core temperature drops by 1 to 2 degrees. This helps your body save energy while you sleep. As you descend through the stages of non-rapid eye movement sleep, your brain ...

The locus coeruleus is emerging as a major new area of research interest, with many important functions such as regulating ...

A new book explores the myth that getting eight hours of shut-eye is how we should be sleeping. Its author, Dr Merijn van de ...

The human body does not like to stall between ... Stage 2 can last up to 50 minutes during the night’s first 90-minute sleep cycle. (It typically occupies a smaller portion of subsequent cycles.) ...

The brain will cycle through these various stages of sleep several times per night, taking about 90 minutes to two hours to complete a single cycle. All of these cycles are important for human health.

Exercise improves sleep quality and helps treat sleep disorders by regulating circadian rhythms, reducing stress, and ...

Sleep science is rewriting the rules on rest, exposing myths about sleep cycles, alarms, and nutrition while offering a path to better health.

Now, new research shows that a common prescription sleep aid can disrupt this essential process. In 2012, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC ...