About one in nine adults suffer from chronic insomnia and its residual effects like drowsiness, cognitive issues, and ...

If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Sleep is a key determinant in cognitive performance optimization. Here's what you can do to improve the quality of your own ...

Stanford researchers have developed an AI that can predict future disease risk using data from just one night of sleep. The ...

Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising ...

Setting an alarm to go off an hour before your bedtime every night can remind you that it’s time to start getting ready for sleep, Dr. Varga said. Doing something relaxing during that hour, such as ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...

Studies suggest that racism and gender discrimination are linked to a higher risk of cognitive decline and even heart disease ...

SleepFM showed especially strong results for Parkinson’s disease (C-index 0.89), dementia (0.85), hypertensive heart disease ...