Sleep plays a crucial role in nearly every aspect of our health—from cognitive performance to emotional well-being. But one often-overlooked connection is the link between sleep and body weight. Many ...

How Are Sleep and Weight Loss Connected? This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. If you’re crashing at the end of a long day or staying in your comfortable bed long after ...

Poor sleep puts the brain in survival mode and this chronic lack of sleep can turn small annoyances into full-blown ...

You may have heard the story of Randy Gardner, the boy who once stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes, or more than 264 hours. Although Gardner exhibited physical, mental and emotional degeneration ...

This reduced connectivity may increase the risk of behavioral problems and mental illnesses like depression and ADHD. Boys and minority children are particularly vulnerable to sleep deficits and ...

A chronic lack of sleep not only impairs cognitive abilities but also increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Current research discussed at the Congress of the European Academy of Neurology ...

If your sex life needs a boost, you may want to spend more time in bed sleeping. A new study found lack of sleep kills libido. Researchers followed nearly 4,000 men and women in their early- to ...

Daytime “wash cycles” help clear waste from the brain but cause momentary drops in attention after nights of poor sleep.

Anyone who suffers from chronic headaches or worse, migraines, knows that lack of sleep can sometimes be the culprit. And anyone whose been victimized by a migraine also knows that losing sleep can be ...

NOTE: Since I wrote this blog entry initially, a new analysis of this data set by Holger Spamann has become available. This analysis indicates that the effects reported in the original paper by Cho et ...

When couples think about fertility, they often focus on diet, exercise, and medical tests. Sleep is not even a part of any conversation. However, sleep is one of the most important and overlooked ...

A London man thought he was “in a television studio” performing to an audience after he didn’t sleep for more than a week ...