Drivers Who Only Sleep 4-5 Hours Have the Same Risk of Crashing as Drunk Drivers And missing just 1-2 hours of sleep doubles the risk of crashing, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Daylight Savings Is Good For Sleep, But May Be Bad For Your Brain Researchers found that setting the clock back for winter led to a spike in depression for some people.
Does Weed Help You Sleep? Probably Not Marijuana users may believe that frequent use helps them sleep, but that perception has been challenged by a BU School of Public Health study.
Health Check: What Determines Whether We’re Night Owls or Morning Larks? About 10% of the population are morning larks, and 20% true night owls.
Why a Lack of Sleep Makes Us Depressed ... and What We Can Do About it Over the past decade or so it has become increasingly clear that disturbed sleep often comes before an episode of depression, not afterwards, helping to do away with the notion that sleep problems are secondary to other disorders.
Did We Used to Have Two Sleeps Rather Than One? Should We Again? Throughout history there have been numerous accounts of segmented sleep, from medical texts, to court records and diaries
Why Do You Feel Like You're Falling When You Go to Sleep? You may have to blame your ancestors for those sleep twitches...
Today’s Culture Is Overriding Our Body’s Natural Circadian Rhythms, Study Finds Electronics and artificial lighting are fundamentally changing our sleep patterns.