Sleep often suffers in a student’s freshman year, but a new study finds that young college students may think their sleep quality is better than it is. The study also demonstrates that a low-cost campuswide media campaign can help some students sleep better and suggests that discussing sleep problems may be a gateway for co…

Three-year study tracks dopamine levels in those who suffer behavioral sleep disorders. Researchers have found that the progression of Parkinson’s disease can be detected in those who suffer from REM behavioral sleep disorders. A three-part study published by Lancet Neurology and authored by doctors at Multidisciplinary…

Patients suffering REM sleep behaviour disorders dream nightmares in which they are attacked and pursued, with the particularity that they express them by screaming, crying, punching and kicking while sleeping. Lancet Neurology has published the third consecutive work in five years about the relationship between this disorder…

When you can’t sleep, you know it. But what about when you can, yet you wake up feeling tired and achy or you’re groggy again a few hours later? What’s that about? All too often, it turns out, the problem is one that doesn’t keep you awake but does sabotage your sleep in more subtle [...]

What your body was up to while you were sleeping might make you blush… If you’re confiding in a friend about sleep problems, the conversation might turn to topics like not getting enough rest or tossing and turning at night. But what about things your body does during sleep – like drooling, snoring, bedwetti…