Among my friends and acquaintances with kids in college, several are battling depression, often to a debilitating degree that is heart wrenching. They miss classes, isolate in their dorm rooms for ...

Your mind goes blank in the supermarket. What was it you meant to buy? Here’s what’s going on in your brain and when you need ...

Novelist George Orwell once wrote, "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." While Orwell wrote a few somewhat similar thoughts ...

This is now my go-to method for soothing nighttime anxiety — here's how to do it ...

Most U.S. teens are not getting enough sleep. And about one-fourth are seriously sleep deprived, which is a higher number of sleep-deprived teens than in any previous survey, acco ...

Weighted blankets are a simple but powerful way to signal to your body that it’s time to relax. They provide gentle, all-over pressure that can help your nervous system shift into “rest” mode and ease ...

Researchers found a positive association between the presence of common environmental pollutants in the human body and ...

Eight hours of sleep used to be the norm, and all-nighters with only a few hours of rest were rare among teenagers. In recent ...

I spent a week with the global elite in Davos. There was a lot of talk about your job.

Can someone commit sexual assault while asleep? The psychology of sexsomnia: What is it and what to do about it?

This Sleep Awareness Month, consider this your sign to stop glorifying exhaustion and start protecting your rest.

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.