You go to bed at the same time every night but still feel exhausted in the morning. You crash at 3 PM daily despite getting eight hours of sleep. You lie awake staring at the ceiling when you should ...

Around 11:30 a.m. or so, you might find yourself hankering for lunch. The reason for this is that our biological rhythms are trained to tell ourselves when we are hungry, and when we do get that ...

What’s the big idea? If you are dancing and can’t catch the beat, you are not dancing well. In this way, if your sleep doesn’t follow a regular pattern that matches your biological beat, then you are ...

Your circadian rhythm is a 24-hour internal clock managed by the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the brain, influencing sleep, hormones, and metabolism. Modern exposure to artificial light, especially blue ...

A new study suggests that stronger patterns of daily activity and rest, known as rest-activity rhythms, can strengthen ...

Disrupted circadian rhythms, which can even be caused by chronic light exposure, affects normal physiological functions, resulting in anxiety, hyperactivity, and memory deficits. These disruptions, ...

It's no secret that jet lag and night-shift work can wreak havoc on the way our body's internal clock syncs up our daily wake-sleep cycle, known as circadian rhythm, but now researchers say they are a ...

Borniger lab has found that breast cancer forces neurons (green) in a region of the mouse hypothalamus called the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), seen here, into a hyperactive state. This “always on” ...

A new scientific study shows that bright electric light exposure of preschool children in the evening suppresses melatonin production almost completely, an important addition to the growing body of ...