Preliminary results from the "SNAPSHOT study", an NIH-funded collaborative research project between the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and MIT Media Lab ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Daily sleep and activity are fundamental to both physical and mental health. Although previous studies have largely emphasized quantitative aspects such as sleep duration and physical ...

A groundbreaking analysis of sleep patterns and metabolic health has revealed a concerning connection between irregular sleep schedules and the development of type 2 diabetes. Drawing from data on ...

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 ...

If you're a parent who thinks that dragging your teenager out of bed at 8:30 on a Saturday morning is good for them, think again. Research shows that our biological clock shifts throughout life, ...

It’s four in the morning and you just can’t get back to sleep. You toss and turn, miserable in the knowledge that you have to get up in two hours to go to work. If only you could get one more hour of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Changing the clocks in the spring and fall has become routine for many of us. But what does it really do to our sleep? Many of us wonder, when Daylight Saving Time rolls around, ...

How does your brain wake up from sleep? A study of more than 1,000 arousals from slumber has revealed precisely how the brain bestirs itself during the transition to alertness — a finding that might ...