Sleep

Do you really need eight hours of sleep each night to thrive? Savvy Psychologist Dr. Jade Wu breaks down the eight-hour sleep myth and offers three ways to find the best sleep for you

Slow-wave activity during dreamless slumber helps wash out neural detritus

There’s a connection between sleep and hunger. Getting better quality sleep may help with appetite, cravings, and ultimately, weight loss

U.C.S.F. researchers find a gene for flourishing with less shut-eye

If you’re not sleeping well, you may not be reaching your life goals, let alone your fitness goals

The marine mollusks display behavior that resembles sleep, including cycles of rapid eye movement 

Weekday sleep deprivation with weekend make-up sleeping seems to be worse for blood sugar control than even chronic sleep deprivation alone.

There are plenty of theories, but nobody really knows for sure

Back-and-forth motions may tweak the sensory organs that control our balance and spatial orientation

Mice that lack these genes do not engage in rapid eye movement sleep

Study proposes novel sleep theory, but whether it can explain infant death syndrome remains less clear

Poor-quality sleep may heighten behaviors including hyperactivity, compulsions and aggressiveness