Insomnia is often used as a catch-all term to describe a whole slew of sleep problems. Trouble falling asleep, waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to fall back asleep, and waking ...

I've been dealing with 3am wake-ups for months. Two doctors just explained what's likely behind these nighttime wake-ups and ...

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 ...

The brain doesn’t gradually fall asleep. Instead, it reaches a tipping point at which it rapidly transitions from wakefulness to sleep in a matter of minutes – a discovery that could improve our ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." IF YOU ASK someone to describe the process of falling asleep, you might get one of two extreme answers.

The first uncomfortable truth of sleep is this: We can’t get to sleep, we can’t life-hack our way to sleep, and we can’t will our way to sleep. Instead, we fall asleep much like we fall in love or ...