Different people may experience one of five types of sleep, and these profiles each highlight how our shut-eye affects our health. Previous research has found associations between sleep and cognition, ...

A recent study published in the journal Dreaming suggests that specific sleep patterns, such as the time it takes to fall ...

If you feel more sluggish during certain times of the day, it could be due to your sleep chronotype. The chronotype affects the body’s natural tendency to be asleep or awake, according to the Sleep ...

"I have to get my deep REM sleep," expresses a common confusion about two very different types of sleep. Deep sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep are not the same; they do not even overlap. They ...

A revelatory new study has uncovered alarming evidence about how poor sleep patterns may permanently alter our brains, with particularly concerning implications for people managing high blood pressure ...

If you’ve been on social media lately – perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn’t but you just can’t sleep – you might have seen those videos promoting a get-to-sleep ...

Sleep apnea and other types of sleep disorders appear to elevate the risk for some types of cancer, specifically prostate cancer, more so than others. But the overall risk can be highly variable, and ...