The factors that govern the timing and duration of sleep and wakefulness continue to be a focal point of vigorous research within the scientific community. Nearly four decades ago, the two-process ...

The Strehler and Mildvan (SM) general theory of ageing and mortality provides a mechanism-based explanation of Gompertz's law and predicts a log-linear relationship between the two Gompertz ...

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 ...

Everyone has heard that it’s vital to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, a recommendation repeated so often it has become gospel. Get anything less, and you are more likely to suffer from poor ...