Medications for many conditions, from diabetes to high blood pressure, can cause insomnia and sleep problems in older adults. Here's what you can do.

Owing to the no free lunch theorem, no single optimisation algorithm can solve all optimisation problems accurately, so new optimisation techniques are required. In this paper, a novel metaheuristic ...

Doctor's two 'game-changing' rules for the perfect nap that won't ruin your sleep ...

Doctor's two 'game-changing' rules for the perfect nap that won't ruin your sleep ...

Researchers have found that the type of sleep most apt to calm and reset the anxious brain is deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow-wave sleep, a state in which neural ...

A novel multi-channel-based 3D convolutional neural network (3D-CNN) is proposed in this paper to classify sleep stages. Time domain features, frequency domain features, and time-frequency domain ...

When is the best time to take nap? A sleep doctor reveals the optimal time of day to take a nap in order to feel rested and reap the health benefits.

Since 2004, scientific research has shown that a full night of sleep may lend itself to a burst of insight in the morning. But what about the earlier stages of sleep? And what about just a nap? A ...

It's long been theorised that sleep can help bring on "eureka" moments of insight or realisation, but now a group of scientists have put it to the test.