A new study finds that entering N2 sleep—a deep phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep—may help lead to more “eureka” ...

Getting only six hours of sleep per night consistently isn’t enough for everyone and can have adverse effects over time. Find ...

A new study in PLOS Biology shows that deep N2 sleep, rather than light N1 sleep, dramatically boosts the likelihood of “aha” ...

2. Both Why We Sleep and Walker’s TED Talk focus on sleep deprivation, not insomnia, with the implicit and sometimes explicit assumption that too many people choose to blow off sleep in favor of work ...

In another recent piece, I mentioned that one of the features I've enjoyed most since getting an Apple Watch Ultra 2 is ...

People have long suspected that rest can bring answers to tough questions. Paul McCartney said the melody of “Yesterday” came ...

Summary: New research reveals that sleep deprivation alters how the brain processes pain in people with migraines. Using EEG and pain stimulation, scientists found that migraine sufferers’ brains ...

How do animals bounce back from sleep deprivation? Scientists found a subset of neurons in the mouse thalamus that repay this ...

For the first time, researchers have studied what happens in the brains of people who have migraines when they haven't slept ...

You stayed up too late scrolling through your phone, answering emails or watching just one more episode. The next morning, you feel groggy and irritable. That sugary pastry or greasy breakfast ...

However, spectral analysis of the sleep EEG showed that, compared to nonsmokers, smokers had a lower percentage of EEG power in the δ-bandwidth (59.7% vs 62.6%, respectively; ...

Dr Aric Prather, Headspace Sleep Advisor, and the Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Research Program at the University of California at San Francisco, rates CBT-I as the gold standard for ...