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 ...

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

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

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

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.

A new study suggests that disruptions in sleep and daily activity timing may be linked to a higher risk of dementia in older ...

Maintaining a bedroom temperature of 24°C (75°F) at night while sleeping reduces stress responses in older adults, according ...

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

Scientists based in Israel studying jellyfish and sea anemones have found evidence of them being in sleep-like states.

Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.