When I had my first baby, I learned firsthand how sleep deprivation can impact a new mom’s mental health ...

Can caffeine save your social life? New research shows how caffeine restores social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by targeting the hippocampal CA2 region. Learn about the molecular mechanisms ...

From hormonal imbalance to gut health disruption, read about these 7 unexpected ways lack of sleep can affect your body.

Quality sleep is critical for people living with epilepsy to avoid triggering seizures. Poor sleep can affect seizures, ...

In my roles as a founder and entrepreneur, I treated sleep as a luxury, and it wasn’t until I lost the ability to get a ...

Sleep deprivation has become a common part of college life. Late nights and all-nighters are often seen as normal, and being tired is something many students simply expect as part of the experience.

2. Take a hot bath with Epsom salts before bed to help calm your mind and body I treat my transition to sleep as a sacrosanct ...

For the first time, researchers have studied what happens in the brains of people who have migraines when they haven't slept enough. Migraine is characterized by pulsating headaches, photophobia, ...

Before I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I didn’t think twice about sleep. I’d always been a night owl, but I went to bed reasonably early. And I never had trouble falling asleep or getting eight ...

For decades, we’ve been trained to think about weight as it relates to physical activity—as in, regular workouts are key to maintaining a healthy body weight. Yet as scientists’ understanding of ...

As someone with three kids ages 1 to 6, I’ve been operating in some stage of sleep deprivation for over half a decade. When my older two were babies, there were nights when I would’ve tried just about ...

In our culture, exhaustion is often celebrated as a badge of honor. Black women who skimp on sleep thinking they’re making money in the short term are only setting themselves up for a financial ...