The other night my children slept at their grandparents’ apartment. They both had trouble sleeping, which is not unusual when they’re away from home, and my poor parents ended up sharing beds with the ...

A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has been garnering attention for its role in foreshadowing neurodegenerative brain ...

Adults who sleep only three to five hours per day are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Chronic sleep deprivation cannot be compensated for by healthy eating ...

Like Goldilocks’ porridge, sleep needs to be “just right” for a person's brain to stay healthy. In the April 28 Nature Aging, researchers led by Wei Cheng and Jianfeng Feng at Fudan University in ...

Everyone has heard that it’s vital to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, a recommendation repeated so often it has become gospel. Get anything less, and you are more likely to suffer from poor ...