For most of us, we know that a bad night’s sleep makes us feel blah the next day. Without sleep, small tasks take longer, we ...

Poor sleep hygiene can lead to negative health outcomes, but what exactly is sleep hygiene and how can you improve it?

Caroline Igo (she/her/hers) is a wellness editor and holds Sleep Science Coach and Stress Management certificates from the Spencer Institute. She received her bachelor's degree in creative writing ...

For patients with insomnia, dCBT-I significantly improved productivity and decreased work-related rumination and WPAI scores.

For further advice to optimize your sleep and resolve insomnia, consider participating in a cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTI) program available online or through a psychologist.

Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects Marla Broadfoot, Knowable Magazine Some people are genetically built to require less sleep than the ...

Sleep apnea, a sleep disorder typically managed with a medical device that aids in breathing, now has its first FDA-approved drug therapy, an Eli Lilly medicine initially developed as a treatment ...

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Sleep deprivation can occur after just 24 hours of no sleep. However, the longer you spend awake, the more severe — and less tolerable — symptoms become. In general, there are 5 stages of ...

How to get an ideal night of sleep has been trending on social media. It's called sleep optimization, or "sleepmaxxing," and it's particularly popular among younger Americans. From using sleep ...

As fatal familial insomnia progresses, patients completely stop sleeping and enter a coma-like state that results in death within months. Children need to inherit only one copy of the mutant PRNP ...

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 ...