New insights about 'the darkness hormone,' melatonin


Why You Should Be Sleeping in the Nude


Hot Enough for You? Sweating at Night Undermines Sleep


The Crucial Benefit of Good Sleep You Might Be Forgetting


The Troubling Link Between When You Eat and How You Sleep


What's Really Keeping You From Getting a Good Night's Sleep


Observing the damaged brain for clues about dreaming


How Do Scientists Study Dreams?


Get to Sleep. Your Life Depends on It.


You're Awake but You Can't Move


Do Sleep Issues in Teens Predict Drug and Alcohol Problems?


Sleep Is a Turn On

Sleep may have a significant role to play in the health and vitality of our sexual lives.

Cultivating Mindfulness to Help Sleep

Mindfulness therapy to improve sleep and alleviate symptoms of insomnia or other sleep problems can involve a number of different techniques, including meditation, movement and breathing exercises, sleep restriction and sensory deprivation.

Why Do We Dream?

Many scientists studying sleep and dreams believe that dreaming does have a purpose.

Why We Dream What We Dream


Our Dreaming World

Despite sustained scientific exploration and attention—and no shortage of theories—we still don’t know the answer to the most fundamental question: Why do we dream?

How to Keep Snoring from Hurting Your Relationship

Tending to a snoring issue can lead to better sleep for both partners, as well as a more loving and harmonious relationship that includes sleeping together, not apart. Sleeping well with the person we love is the goal, and by treating snoring effectively, it can happen. There is help.

Is Sleep Apnea Related to the "Sperm Crisis"?

What’s behind the widespread decrease in sperm quality? There’s not likely to be a single culprit, nor a simple answer. Results of a newly released study suggest an intriguing possibility: could the “sperm crisis” observed in the French study and others be at least partially the result of sleep apnea?

How Our Dreams Influence Our Days

How much thought do you give to your dreaming life?

EPAP and the Future of Snoring

Snoring is a sleep problem that should not be ignored. Left unattended, snoring can wreak havoc with both health and quality of life, increasing risks for serious health conditions and contributing to difficulties with daily functioning. New treatments are available.

Mind-body Therapies to Ease Insomnia

If you are suffering from insomnia, meditation and Tai Chi may improve your symptoms, including overall sleep quality.

Does Cancer Grow More Aggressively at Night?

Researchers have found evidence that some cancers may grow more quickly during nighttime resting hours than during the waking day.

Does Your Sleep Wax and Wane With the Moon?

Do the phases of the moon really affect our sleeping?

Is 8 Hours of Sleep a Night Too Much?

Eight hours of sleep may not be the gold standard for a healthy sleep routine. A growing body of research suggests that the ideal amount of nightly sleep may be seven hours.

Can Diet Keep Circadian Clocks "Ticking" Well?

Food consumption - both the timing of eating and what kinds of food we eat- may alter circadian rhythms and affect sleep.

A Scary-Sounding Sleep Disorder: Exploding Head Syndrome

Exploding head syndrome may sound like something our of a science fiction movie-but it's a very real sleep disorder.

Why You Should Probably Go to Bed Right Now

Do without sleep now and make up for it later. Research indicates that adults with busy lives and demanding schedules that run up a sleep deficit may not be successful at catching up. Irreversible damage to the brain may be linked to insufficient sleep.

Nightmares and Insomnia Together Exacerbate Depression

Nightmares can cause sleep problems, anxiety, and aggravate symptoms of depression according to new research at Japan's Tokyo Medical University. The study found that the joint presence of insomnia and nightmares had a significant effect on the severity of depression.

Brain’s "Sleep Switch" Found

The discovery of the brain’s homeostatic “sleep switch” is a significant step toward a more thorough understanding of how the human body’s drive for sleep really works. Deepening this understanding may improve existing sleep therapies and open important new avenues for treatment of sleep disorders.

Poor Sleep Increases Pain Risk—Especially as We Age

Maintaining a routine of high-quality sleep in plentiful amounts may be one of the most important things you can do to reduce your risk of experiencing physical pain as you grow older.