Researchers found a way to implement cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) at scale, using a proprietary software called COAST, and with good early results to boot. Providers using this ...

Chronic sleep deprivation acts as a systemic stressor, elevating risks for cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysregulation while impairing cognitive function.

As if having cancer wasn’t hard enough, up to 50% of patients and survivors also suffer from insomnia or other sleep disturbances, says Eugenie Spiguel, an advanced practice provider at Memorial Sloan ...

Chronic insomnia—trouble sleeping at least three days a week for three months or more—could speed up brain aging. People with chronic insomnia were 40% more likely to develop dementia or mild ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a science journalist specializing in healthy aging and longevity. About one in three adults don’t get enough sleep, according ...

Peter L. Salgo, MD: Who out there is managing insomnia? They don’t go all the time to sleep specialists. Is it the general practitioners? Is it the family physicians, the gynecologists? Who’s taking ...

Despite the marketing of cannabinoids as a sleep aid, a single dose of tetrahydrocannabinol/cannabidiol (THC/CBD) acutely and objectively worsened sleep in a small ...

Older adults with a combination of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea demonstrated worse sleep and verbal memory ...

Insomnia sufferers often find themselves trying everything under the sun in a frustrating and seemingly futile attempt to get a good night's sleep. However, these all-consuming efforts may be doing ...

A few years ago, drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announced it was retooling its strategy, meaning a drug it was developing for insomnia was probably headed for the sidelines. Vanda Pharmaceuticals ...