Insomnia is often dismissed as stress, bad habits, or simply “thinking too much at night,” but the reality is far more ...

Forget expensive apps, fancy retreats or hour-long mindfulness rituals, today’s most effective mental health hack might be ...

“Sleeplessness is one of the torments of our age and generation.” You might presume that this is a quote from a contemporary commentator, and no wonder: the World Health Organisation has diagnosed a ...

Teenagers who don't get enough sleep may wake up to worse consequences than nodding off during chemistry class. According to new research, risk of being obese by age 21 was 20 percent higher among ...

Sleeplessness is a common concern these days. While insomnia is a medical condition that few individuals face and it needs professional guidance, some experience short term sleep disorder from time to ...

A rare genetic disease prods scientists to explore the mysteries of sleep. April 26, 2010— -- Most people can relate to the occasional sleepless night, but for sufferers of a rare form of ...

Everyone knows how it feels to waste precious nighttime hours on Facebook and become too tired to interact with actual people the next day. New research from the University of California, Berkeley ...

Have you noticed how the more you try to force yourself to sleep, the harder it becomes? Here’s how performance anxiety may be to blame. Many people come to therapy seeking solutions for their sleep ...

In December 1963, a military family named the Gardners had just moved to San Diego, Calif. The oldest son, 17-year-old Randy Gardner, was a self-proclaimed "science nerd." His family had moved every ...

Sleep is an essential daily resource—essential to life and basic functioning, essential to health, and essential to productivity and performance. It is essential to the successful accomplishment of ...

This would be a terrible thing to say about most books but, in this case, it might actually be a compliment: I kept falling asleep reading Marina Benjamin's Insomnia. I wasn't so much bored as somehow ...