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

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 ...

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

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.) ...

Taking longer to enter the dream phase can disrupt the ability to consolidate memories and interfere with emotion regulation.

Study reveals that sleep traits predict over 15% of body characteristics across 15 physiological systems, with visceral fat, ...

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 ...