Polysomnography is considered the gold-standard overnight sleep exam that uses various sensors to record brain activity, ...

“We record an amazing number of signals when we study sleep,” co-senior researcher Dr. Emmanuel Mignot, a professor of sleep ...

SleepFM showed especially strong results for Parkinson’s disease (C-index 0.89), dementia (0.85), hypertensive heart disease ...

A new study finds that sleep timing is linked to dementia risk, as people with weak circadian rhythms face a 2.5 times higher ...

It turns out sleeping isn’t just about resting your eyes, as a new study found that even ancient creatures without eyes — or ...

Sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by repeated obstructions or collapses of the upper airway during sleep. These ...

A good night's sleep might be an additional benefit some gain from taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound, a new ...

Medical News Today looks at three key studies and their key findings that highlight and further confirm the connection between how poor sleep increases dementia risk.

In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

About half of older men suffer from sleep problems, back pain or both, according to Soomi Lee, associate professor of human ...

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.