Sleeping well has profound effects. Good quality sleep is proven to enhance mood, protect health, and even optimize productivity. Sleep badly and adverse consequences across all these measures can be ...

That sudden jolt or twitch just as you’re drifting into sleep isn’t your imagination. It’s a real physiological event. One moment, you’re fading into slumber, and the next, your arm or leg flings out ...

Falling asleep used to be looked at as something that happened gradually until sleep set in, but researchers have found that is not the case. After you close your eyes, there is actually a certain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. Sleep is one of those things we often take for granted. Yet ...

In the new study, researchers demonstrated that the human brain falls asleep abruptly, rather than gradually, with a "tipping point" marking the transition from wakefulness into sleep. They were then ...

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