Thanks to the Internet, it's the age of self-diagnosis. People like to learn about (and treat) themselves through technology. Especially when pretty graphs are involved. As a sleep researcher, I was ...

A novel approach to analyze brainwaves during sleep has been developed by researchers, which promises to give a more detailed and accurate depiction of neurophysiological changes than provided by a ...

It’s easy to ask: “Why sleep?” But we can also turn the question on its head: “Why wake?” We need to be awake, among other reasons, to find and eat food, drink water, escape danger, reproduce, and ...

Six hours and 48 minutes. That's how much the typical American sleeps, according to the most recent Gallup Survey. Eight hours and 42 minutes. That's how much the typical American sleeps, according to ...

Current sleep staging practice consists of visual analysis of 30-second segments of raw EEG wave forms (top) and subjective categorization into sleep stages to create a hypnogram (middle), which is ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dreaming wistfully of a good night's rest? You are not alone: insomnia has reached epidemic proportions. Hannah Betts delves into those ...

A mindful acceptance of everything that goes along with sleeplessness — the worry, anxiety — may be the best way to address the condition I don’t remember having trouble sleeping — until my late teens ...