Sleep

According to a recent study, the participants reported feeling more well-rested on the nights when they believed they were sleeping with their partner’s scent. Read on. read more

The model identifies sleep stages as accurately as an experienced physician. Sleep is manually classified into five stages, which are wake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and three stages of non-REM sleep. read more

Researchers have demonstrated that some smells, such as those from rose-scented incense sticks, may facilitate better learning during sleep, a finding that could lead to better ways of improving memory retention. read more

A new research suggests that a person’s hard work will only bring fruit if he or she gets enough sleep at the end of the day. read more

People who regularly sleep for more than 11 hours or less than four hours are 2-3 times more likely to have the incurable lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, compared to those that sleep for seven hours in a day, researchers have found. read more

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Sleep disorders are one of the more common complaints during menopause, affecting 40% to 60% of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. read more

Deprived sleep can increase the risks of heart-related diseases. read more

The job entails sleeping every night for nine hours, every week for 100 days read more

Sleep is traditionally considered to be a homeostatic process that resists deviation from equilibrium. In that regard, brief episodes of waking are viewed as perturbations that lead to sleep fragmentation and related sleep disorders. read more

Researchers from the University Centre of General Medicine and Public Health (Unisante) in Switzerland noted that economically disadvantaged people sleep less for a variety of reasons. read more

Sleep-deprived individuals need to exercise caution in absolutely everything that they do, and simply can’t trust that they won’t make costly errors. Oftentimes - like when behind the wheel of a car - these errors can have tragic consequences. read more

In William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Macbeth, he had referred to sleep as the “balm of hurt minds”. read more

Visits to national parks around the world may result in improved mental health valued at about $US6 trillion (5.4 trillion euros), according to a team of ecologists, psychologists and economists. read more

The study, published in the journal Neurology, involved 487,200 people in China with an average age of 51. Participants had no history of stroke or heart disease at the beginning of the study. read more