We ask an expert why REM sleep is so important, what happens if we don't get enough of it and how to get more REM sleep.

A sleep expert details why you wake up groggy from a nap and how to make the most of your snack-sized slumber.

Study showed that patients who took longer to reach the dream state also had more biomarkers for the disease.

A delay in getting to the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep may be linked to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, ...

Prolonged rapid eye movement sleep latency may be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, according ...

Taking longer to drift into the dreaming phase – known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep – could be an early sign of ...

In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but ...

New research on ‘slow-wave sleep’ may have implications for others battling insomnia, including people with anxiety and ...

People who take longer to enter the dream stage of the sleep cycle are more likely to develop dementia, suggests a new study.

Research indicates longer REM latency is associated with higher Alzheimer's biomarkers, pointing to its potential as an early ...

Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing ...

When you’re in a period of REM sleep, your eyes will rapidly move from side to side and that’s where the name REM (short for rapid eye movement) comes from. This is because when we fall asleep ...