Much of sleep medicine research focuses on specific problems, such as sleep apnea’s link to cognitive decline, how insomnia ...

The cognitive shuffling technique is designed to promote sleep by mimicking how your brain naturally works when dozing off.

"People know that growth hormone release is tightly related to sleep, but only through drawing blood and checking growth hormone levels during sleep," says neuroscientist Xinlu Ding, from UC Berkeley.

Scientists are providing a fuller understanding of the essential role that sleep plays in brain health, identifying an abrupt transition at about 2.4 years of age when its primary purpose shifts from ...

Caffeine doesn't just make it harder to fall asleep; it changes how the brain behaves during rest. New research shows that caffeine alters brain activity in ways that make sleep look more like ...

Having a brain age higher than your actual age can be a signal of departure from healthy ageing. Previous research has linked an older-appearing brain to faster cognitive decline, greater dementia ...

A revealing study found that poor sleep patterns age a person's brain faster than those who sleep more than 8 hours per night ...

“The gap between brain age and chronological age widened by about six months for every 1-point decrease in healthy sleep score,” explained lead researcher Abigail Dove, from Karolinska Institutet’s ...

Dr Amir Khan has shared the real reason you may be jolting awake when you sleep, which can be worrying for some; and some scientists say it has an interesting explanation ...

When startled, your brain and body activate the fight-or-flight response, flooding you with stress hormones. This rapid ...

A wind-down routine should lower arousal, try reading, meditation, gentle stretches or a warm bath. Activities that spike adrenaline, worry for screen engagement delay sleep onset. Build a 30-90 ...