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Scientists have discovered five different types of sleep in humans, each with its own distinct brain activity pattern and impacts on health and behaviour, an advance that could lead to new depression ...

How do you sleep? Are you out like a light, up five times a night, or likely to start a fight with your alarm if you only get six hours of snooze? A new study, published in PLOS Biology, claims to ...

You don't have to lie awake for hours past bedtime to have insomnia. Having trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and even waking up too early are all signs of a sleep disorder. To help you ...

Clear overview of sleep disorders, covering how they differ, why they occur, common signs, and when ongoing sleep issues may ...

Here’s a question from an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation colleague: My wife and I have recently begun tracking our sleep; I use an Oura Ring and she uses a Garmin watch. The devices not only ...

Poor sleep habits are strongly associated with long-term chronic health conditions, according to decades of research. To better understand this relationship, a team identified four distinct patterns ...

Most people love to sleep and love to complain about not getting enough of it. However, researchers say our periodic observations of what kind of sleep we get don’t show an accurate picture. That’s ...

A new study has ranked the best types of exercise for improving sleep quality. The findings demonstrate that exercise is an easy-to-implement, relatively cheap, and particularly effective way of ...

The average child in this country is walking around sleep-deprived. These rest deficits increase a child’s risk of depression, anxiety and risky behavior. Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal ...

Suchandrima Bhowmik is a freelance journalist who specializes in medical, health and nutrition writing. She has written over 300 articles for online publications such as Health.com, MedScape, ...