Why do we twitch as we're falling asleep?

Beyond drowsy, too little sleep ups diabetes risk

More people pull the night shift. Teens text past midnight and stumble to class at dawn. Travelers pack red-eye flights.

30 hotel chains every traveler should know

6 signs you need more sleep

Sleep breathing problems linked with depression

Spring out of bed: It's daylight science time

It’s that time of year, when crocuses bloom, the lawn starts to need mowing, and most Americans lose an hour’s sleep setting their clocks ahead. (Remember? Spring forward, fall back.) So here are answers to your questions about the time switch — and about sleep.

Seniors say they sleep better than younger folks

Health aides, lawyers are most sleep deprived

Teens may need less sleep than you thought

Kids don't get enough sleep, study finds

Paraguay, stuck in siesta mode, awaits Lugo's exit

Paraguay's congress closed its doors last week for more than two months of paid vacation, showing no interest in giving President Fernando Lugo anything on his wish list, even after lawmakers return to work next March.

Moms, need medication to get a full night of sleep?

Do you find yourself waking up in the wee hours of the morning with thoughts of everything you still need to accomplish keeping you from returning to sleep? TODAY wants to speak with mothers who have turned to sleep aids like Ambien, Lunesta, or even Tylenol PM to stay asleep. If you use sleep aids to make it through the night, please send a brief description of what keeps you awake, what you're taking for relief and we may contact you for an interview.

Fall back: Time to reset your biological clock

If you've been falling behind on sleep, this is the weekend to fall back into bed for an extra hour — and take advantage of the transition from daylight saving time to standard time.

Photos reveal kids’ ‘kingdoms’: Their bedrooms

You can learn a lot about children by studying their facial expressions, or hair, or clothes, or body language. But if you really want to understand what matters most to a child, you must enter that most distinctive sanctuary of all: their bedroom.

Nighttime or violent TV tied to tots' sleep woes

If your preschooler can't sleep — turn off the violence and nighttime TV.

Wife's insomnia can cause marriage problems

Women have a new reason to get help with their insomnia — poor sleep might be damaging their marriages.

Zonked? Finding your sleep sweet spot can help

Dan Nainan, 29, an actor and comedian in New York City sleeps on his back not because he finds it comfortable — but because he worries about wrinkles."People who sleep on their side do not understand that their faces are getting all mushed up for seven or eight hours a day,” he says.

When snakes attack, it might be a night terror

For the last several years, Dorian Lake, 8, occasionally awakes at night, bolts up in his bed and begins shrieking loudly. When his parents rush to his bed, "he’ll be screaming like we’re not there, almost fighting me off, says his mother Belinda Edmondson, Montclair, N.J. "He’ll say ‘there are snakes, there are snakes.’ He’ll push the bedcovers off. Then he’ll fall back asleep.”

Go the bleep to sleep, dad writes in best-seller

Playing dress up or running around the park, kids can be so darn cute. Until it's 3 a.m. and they won't go the (bleep) to sleep.

Men ponder food and sleep as much as sex

Men think about sex every seven seconds, right? Not according to a new study that finds men ponder sleep and food as much as they do sex.

Air controllers need fortitude in demanding job

When Miami’s clouds turn foul and a parade of incoming pilots start demanding new routes, Jim Marinitti stares hard at the string of white blips on his black radarscope. He instantly rams his thoughts four moves ahead. He inches forward in his chair. The race is on.

Odd work schedules pose risk to health

Reports of sleeping air traffic controllers highlight a long-known and often ignored hazard: Workers on night shifts can have trouble concentrating and even staying awake.

Too little sleep can harm young brains

Across the country each morning, groggy teens are dragging themselves out of bed and trudging sleepily off to school. These bleary-eyed young people are often too tired to take in much of what’s being taught in their early morning classes.

Live chat, noon ET: teens and sleep

According to Dr. Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health, the teen years are critical years for brain development, and this period of change for our brain has effects into adulthood. Will all this multi-tasking during the teen years make them less able to focus on one thing when they have to? Or do digital distractions make their minds stronger?

CDC: A third of Americans don't sleep 7 hours

More than a third of U.S. adults sleep less than seven hours a night, and many of them report troubles concentrating, remembering and even driving.

Sex or Sleep?

If given the choice between getting a good solid night's sleep or hitting the sheets for a hot and heavy night of passion, which would you choose?  Let's assume that you have to get up early the next morning for work or to get the kids ready for school, and y …

" Sure, speed kills. But new science suggests your sluggish slog form home to work (and back) is slowly sucking the life out of you ~ exit by excruciating exit."

There’s no room in our homes that we spend more time in than the bedroom. You can say I’m biased, but I think it’s the most important room in the house. The National Sleep Foundation has just released the results of its first-ever “Bedroom Poll …

Toss out another old wives' tale: Sleeping too much does not make you fat. Quite the opposite, according to a new study examining sleep and body mass index (BMI) in twins, which found that sleeping more than nine hours a night may actually suppress genetic influences on body we …

"When your head hitsthe pillow,for many it's lights out for the conscious part of you. But the cells firing in our brain are very much awake, sparking enough energy to produce the sometimes vivid and sometimes downright haunted dreams that take place during rapid-eye movement s …

When your head hits the pillow, for many it's lights out for the conscious part of you. But the cells firing in your brain are very much awake, sparking enough energy to produce the sometimes vivid and sometimes downright haunted dreams that take place during the rapid-eye-move …

A new study has shown that sleep restriction, along with a disruption of one's internal body clock, can raise the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Which you do think is more important for your body? Eating or sleeping? (Poll)

Judging this question purely on which one allows you to live longer if it were stopped, which of these two essentials would be more important? We all know how crucial food is to having a healthy presence, and how equally crucial sleep is for repairing the body and maintaining th …

Queensland researchers say a new study has found people get a better night's sleep with pets in their bed rather than a partner. Researchers at Central Queensland University did an online study into sleep patterns with more than 13,000 people earlier this year. Professor Drew …

The bifurcated pattern of sleep, which many people consider insomnia today, might very well be a natural, normal schedule

‘Our study confirms that sleeping directly after learning something new is beneficial for memory. What's novel about this study is that we tried to shine light on sleep's influence on both types of declarative memory by studying semantically unrelated and related word pai …

SleepTracker is a wristwatch that promises to improve sleep quality (and outlook on life) by monitoring the wearer's sleeping patterns.

Rush Limbaugh has rejected an advertiser’s apparent attempt to reunite with his show after the company initially dropped its ads from the program following his remarks about contraception advocate Sandra Fluke. The company, Sleep Train, calls itself “the No.

We've been told over and over that the 8-hour sleep is ideal, but our bodies have been telling us something else.

Tiny critters spreading through hotels, dorms and hospitals

Children who snore, or who have other night-time breathing conditions, are at risk from behavioural problems, according to a study.

Good news for seniors. Contrary to common wisdom, sleep doesn’t get more difficult with age.

"Such was the case for LindsayBlankmeyer, a former student at Stonehill College in Easton , Mass., who filed a suit against the school claiming that her roommate's alleged inappropriate sexual behavior drove her into a deep depression."

Defying expectations: Survey of 150,000 adults shows the fewest complaints come from people in their 80s

Getting enough sleep is no easy feat nowadays.

We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.

You've worn in your walking shoes. You fill your grocery cart with healthy fare. And you're careful not to dive headfirst into a pint of ice cream under stress. Yet your belly fat remains.

A good night's sleep invigorates your body and your mind. Protecting your brain from potential future degeneration.

So many people are placed on anxiolytics like Xanax or Ativan; which is like getting a brand new car.  It looks good, but it doesn't go anywhere without gas.  So what is the gas needed for someone who suffers from anxiety.  Let's figure out how you can fill your  …