Sleep and wakefulness are complex processes that require a substantial portion of brain circuitry to effectively regulate. These are not passive processes but complexly managed states that have to be ...

Some people are genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us. Albert Joseph Moore / Public Domain Everyone has heard that it’s vital to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, a ...

In a paper published in npj Biological Timing and Sleep, researchers analyzed the mathematical structure of the two-process model (2PM) of sleep regulation, which was first proposed in the 1980s. The ...