REM sleep is already called "paradoxical sleep." The body is largely still, yet the brain is highly active. In humans, this ...

In a recent study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers investigated the impacts of full-night-, early-night deprivation-, and late-night deprivation sleep on whole-brain ...

Ever since Vogel's studies in the 1970s it has been known that acute sleep deprivation, particularly deprivation of REM sleep, produces a positive effect on people with depression. The extremely ...

A study led by the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has investigated a seemingly contradictory phenomenon of sleep deprivation leading to mood improvement in ...

Soon we will once again switch to winter time, that is, we set the clocks back an hour. Switching to winter time is considered the easier of the two annual clock transitions, as we gain an hour of ...

On the last Sunday in October, we will set our clocks back an hour, which may temporarily disrupt the sleep patterns of some people. Research at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland shows that sleep ...

A recent review paper authored by Rubin Naiman of the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, and published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (August 2017), claims that “we ...

Forgoing sleep to watch one more episode of the latest show, to read one more chapter of a thrilling book, or even to pull an all-nighter, is not uncommon. But sleep deprivation can catch up to people ...