Increasing sleepiness over 5 years doubled dementia risk among cognitively unimpaired women in their 80s. Sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset, and nap duration and frequency were individually ...

If you’ve ever tossed and turned through the early weeks of pregnancy, unsure whether your changing sleep patterns meant anything more than discomfort or hormones—you’re not alone. And now, a ...

Many people have problems dropping off as they age, but disrupted nights shouldn't be inevitable – here, experts suggest solutions that may help.

Older women experiencing increased daytime sleepiness may need to pay attention to more than just feeling tired. Revolutionary research from the University of California, San Francisco has uncovered a ...

When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...

Researchers discovered a compound, Mic-628, that resets the body clock, helping daily rhythms shift earlier and recover from jet lag faster.

In most of the U.S., clocks will spring forward at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9. While most simply consider the time change a biannual nuisance, doctors caution there can be health consequences in changing ...