Does blue light from your phone really disrupt sleep? Here's how screen time before bed affects melatonin levels, sleep quality, and your overall health, backed by scientific insights. TheHealthSite.c ...

New research finds that sleep is essential for protecting brain mitochondria by transferring toxic metabolic waste from neurons to glial cells for disposal.

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 ...

REM, also known as Rapid Eye Movement is where most dreaming occurs, brain activity increases, and the body becomes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...