Idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) is a rare, chronic neurological disorder that causes people to feel excessively sleepy during the ...

Jill was in middle school when she began eating in her sleep. Despite carrying the food back to her bed to devour night after night, she didn’t have a clue about what she had done until the next ...

Jill is living with sleep-related eating disorder, also known as sleep eating — an arousal condition in which part of the brain wakes while the rest sleeps. Sleep eating is a parasomnia, an abnormal ...

Don't lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That's the message after some scary-sounding reports ...

NOT THE SAME THING: "Some may view insomnia and sleep deprivation as the same thing, but they are actually very different terms," writes Dr. Troy Jackson in his latest health feature. Photo courtesy ...

If you have ever experienced insomnia, you know the agony of trying to fall asleep when your body simply will not cooperate. It is a common problem; an estimated 10 percent of people living in Western ...

Cody, S.L., Hobson, J.M., Gilstrap, S.R., Gloston, G.F., Riggs, K., Thomas, S.J., Goodin, B.R. (in press, 2021). Insomnia severity and depressive symptoms in people ...

Infection with COVID-19 has been associated with trouble sleeping—both during the infection, and even after the infection has resolved. Often labeled as coronasomnia, sleep difficulties are considered ...

Implementing changes to indoor environments, such as cooler bedrooms at night and increasing the amount of bright light during the day, could significantly improve sleep for people living with ...