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Each night, the brain expects you to finally go to sleep, although not everyone actually caves to the brain’s request. Fighting that signal to slumber has all kinds of long-term effects on health, as ...

With neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques, researchers have been able to gain many new insights into dreaming. Scientists have found that neurological activity in the brain while people ...

Sleep deprivation causes irritability, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, weight gain, medical problems, cognitive deficits, impaired work performance, car crashes, and a host of other ills way ...

The clock reads 2:37 a.m. Your mind races while your body exhausts itself tossing beneath tangled sheets. If this midnight misery sounds familiar, you’re far from alone. Nearly 70 million Americans ...

At least 40 million people in the United States suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders, according to the National Institutes of Health, and each year, Americans spend over $2 billion for ...

You may remember little to nothing when you wake up, but there’s a lot going on while you sleep. You just spent the previous seven to nine hours moving through a highly structured cycle of sleep ...

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An expert on sleep and problem-solving responds to Hal Y. Zhang’s “Dream Soft, Dream Big.” In 1921, Nobel Prize winner Otto Loewi had a problem. For 17 years he had suspected that nerve cells ...

For many years, researchers have conducted true experiments to determine the effects of sleep deprivation in adults. These studies have demonstrated conclusively that cognitive processing is ...

Those who have have persistent trouble sleeping may be at higher risk for developing what's known as complicated grief after the loss of a loved one, a new study finds. Those who have persistent ...