There's nothing wrong with wanting to doze off to a good movie after a long day, and these picks offer just the kind of ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with songwriter Amy Allen, who is shortlisted for the non-classical Songwriter of the Year Grammy Award for a second straight year.

In 2022, neuroscientists at the University of Oxford published a study in Brain Communications that links tinnitus and sleep. They found that slow-wave activity in deep sleep might suppress the brain ...

Studies show listening to music can physiologically ease stress and even reduce depressive symptoms. Researchers in the ...

A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) ...

Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the disorders that can result when sleep transitions go wrong Yasemin ...

Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine was credited with saying, “He who sings, prays twice.” Today, scientific research shows that he who sings, performs, or listens to music also enriches and ...

Your sleep-deprived brain behaves as if you were about to nod off to sleep, even when you're awake. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

We know that a bad night’s sleep can leave us groggy, grumpy and unable to focus, which can affect our judgment and productivity. It turns out that restlessness fueled by a few poor habits can also ...

A new meta-analysis finds that listening to soothing, slow-tempo music can meaningfully enhance sleep quality in older adults, though researchers warn the evidence is still limited and highly variable ...

When sleep is skipped, the brain tries to sneak in those fluid pulses during wakefulness, especially when attention slips. "One way to think about those events is that your brain is so in need of ...

Maybe you know you snore like a bear, but you don’t feel much urgency to look into it. Or maybe you have been told to wear a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine for sleep apnea, but ...