I ran four miles every day, did breathing exercises, listened to a meditation tape a friend gave me. Useless. I finally caved and saw my general practitioner, who prescribed Ambien, telling me to feel ...

The first line of treatment for chronic, intractable sleeplessness, per the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBT-I. I’ve tried it, in earnest, at ...

Ashwagandha may help anxiety by relieving stress, improving sleep, and helping with focus. Learn more about how it works and ...

Dr. Roach shares tips for good sleep hygiene including consistent sleep patterns, regular exercise, and avoiding troublesome ...

Weight gain is often the first symptom that women notice during perimenopause, and the first thing we try to “fix.” ...

Helping yourself get to sleep isn’t just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuffling to sleep-restriction ...

Dear Dr. Roach: You recently wrote that "nearly everybody born before 1957 had measles and mumps (but not rubella)." I was ...

It gives me no pleasure to report that the confirmed death rattle of that era has been recorded, in the form of the ...

You recently wrote that “nearly everybody born before 1957 had measles and mumps (but not rubella).” I was born in the early ...

People are using cannabis for everything from pain to insomnia. Here’s when it might help and when it won’t. And don’t smoke ...

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that lemborexant, a medication used to treat insomnia, can reduce brain damage linked to Alzheimer’s disease in a mouse model. The ...

If drugs could be developed to prevent orexin from binding to its receptors, Mignot thought, then people with insomnia would become “narcoleptic for one night”.