During the tranquil one-third of our lives that we spend asleep, the human body does something that might not seem restful at all: REM sleep, short for rapid eye movement, is a phase of sleep that consumes 90 to 120 minutes of an adult human's day and as much as nine whole hours for a newborn baby. …
The only way I can fall asleep is if I look and sound like Darth Vader, at least in my mind — and my doctor supports that. This is not some strange cosplay fantasy. I'm merely one among millions of Americans who needs to use a machine known as the CPAP (short for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) …
A study purporting to find the optimal hour to go to bed in order to prevent negative health outcomes is making the rounds in the media this week — and though it speaks to the relationship between good sleep and overall health, the study's volunteer composition raises questions around who has the …
While you sleep, the brain forgets. But, until recently it was not clear how the brain decides to forget. Scientists analyze sleep by measuring the electrical activity of neurons near the outer layer of the brain. By quantifying brainwave changes, scientists have already determined sleep is not just …
