Ever since I was a teeny-tiny kid, falling asleep has been a problem for me. Back then, I'd lie awake for hours, panicking as I watched the sun creep up, and now, decades later, it's a similar story. I still can't manage to catch a damn wink and neither can anyone else I know. It begs the question — are any of us…
The term "social jet lag" suggests someone rich and famous, probably with a posse — Solange, perhaps? But according to Elizabeth Kolbert's New Yorker piece on the science of sleeplessness, even us commoners suffer from the affliction:
Sleep, in case you don't get a lot of it and instead rely on the sadist you innocently call "caffeine," is really important and losing only a few hours of it each night can adversely affect most animals' ability to perform waking functions, like remembering to refill a subway card before swiping it so you don't hold…
If you're having trouble sleeping, you might not have some complex mental problem; you might just have a good old-fashioned fear of things that go bump in the night. At least that's what a new study has found. Researchers studied a group of college in Toronto and found that almost half of them who said they slept…
If you find yourself padding around your living quarters well into the early morning hours, measuring the length of your shadow while listening to week-old podcasts, odds are you're a woman, probably a pregnant woman with restless leg syndrome.
Anyone who's ever had trouble sleeping has developed elaborate theories on how and why caffeine affects them. It's usually something along the lines of, "If I drink a cup of coffee after 11 a.m. on the third Tuesday of the month, I'll be up all night." But some new research is showing that the power caffeine holds…
We've long known that alcohol kills brain cells and that long term alcohol abuse can interfere with mental health. Now, new research has found that while heavy drinking affects both men and women's ability to produce an important mood-controlling neurotransmitter, it affects ladybrains three times faster than it…
Sometimes it seems like moms cannot catch a break. They're already on duty 24 hours a day, but now it turns out that even when everyone else in the house is fast asleep, they're not getting much rest. Insomnia, the New York times reports, is causing women across the country, but especially moms, to turn to sleeping…
According to a new study, texting right before bedtime may give kids insomnia and mood problems. Also very dangerous were not eating your vegetables, fighting with your sister, and backtalk.
Writes the Daily Mail, "Watching her husband nod off the moment his head hits the pillow unleashes a sleeping beast in many women.." That beast is "sleep envy" — and it can be deadly.
