We all know someone who falls asleep as soon as their head hits the pillow but how quickly we go from being awake to entering the land of nod can affect our health. Sleep latency is the term that ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if infants and children wanted to sleep exactly where we wanted to put them on a given day? No joke here – it would be wonderful, but unfortunately it’s not how most babies sleep.

If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial housekeeping.

Less than half of people who've survived a stroke will go on to have a healthy, normal sleep pattern, new research shows. Normal sleep is defined as six to eight hours of shuteye nightly. However, a ...

When you’re short on sleep and your focus suddenly drifts, your brain may be briefly slipping into cleanup mode. Scientists ...

Many people think that snoring is just a normal part of sleep. But for some, it can be a sign of a serious and often ignored ...

Fruits and veggies are an important part of a balanced diet — and also balanced sleep. A new study from Finland looked into how fruit and vegetable consumption in Finnish adults impacted sleep ...

I can barely sleep past 6:30 a.m. Even if I have the opportunity to sleep in, my body just doesn’t let me; my eyes pop open at the crack of dawn every day, regardless. But my teens? They’re a ...

Skipping just one night of sleep causes healthy adults to see a spike in immune cells linked to chronic inflammation, a key feature of obesity, according to new research. The good news is that once ...

“My child wakes up at 2am and is up for 1-2 hours!” One of us remembers very clearly the first time her daughter ended up doing this. At around 14 months, she woke up in the middle of the night and ...