If we are to make advances in our understanding of sleep and its disorders, we have to see sleep as an inherently social process. It appears to involve just a single individual, but that is an ...

Ambience (sic) is a popular sleep sound app for Android. It features a clean, simple UI along with a variety of calming sounds. They include things like rain, waves, crickets, and even some music. It ...

Sleep is integral not only to physical restoration but also to the modulation of emotional states. Distinct sleep stages contribute in complementary ways: slow wave sleep promotes the downscaling of ...

Sleep may not just be rest for the mind—it may be essential maintenance for the body's power supply. A new study by University of Oxford researchers, published in Nature, reveals that the pressure to ...

Getting to sleep, staying asleep or sleeping at inappropriate moments can be problematic. Whilst some people with disturbed sleep have recognised sleep disorders, for many people it is associated with ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have determined the molecular signature of human sleeping —­ or silent —­ nociceptors: sensory neurons that are ...

Why does staying awake inevitably make us sleepy? Researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have identified ...

Sleep is one of those things that we just can’t do without. In that sense, it is like food: If you are hungry, even Brussels sprouts can start looking good. If you are sleep-deprived, you will be ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers from the MULTI consortium describe the development and potential of the “Sleep Chart,” a comprehensive framework developed using ...