npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Fecal melatonin as a biomarker of emerging circadian maturity and gut microbiota in infancy

Abstract. Sleep concerns are very common in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) and are associated with significant impairmen

Time-restricted eating (TRE) has gained attention for its potential cardiometabolic health benefits. Existing TRE approaches may have limited adherence and sustainability due to fixed fasting windows ...

Background Epilepsy in children presents challenges for families who must navigate the condition itself, along with complex medical information and the emotional realities of daily care. Underpinnin.....

Purpose Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent among autistic children and exhibit a complex bidirectional relationship with behavioural outcomes. To provide a comprehensive and systematic understand...

Full-Time, Fixed-Term until 31 October 2026.Applications are invited for a Research Assistant position at the Department of Psychology on the Leverhulme Trust funded project: “How does poor sleep in a...

AbstractStudy Objectives. Sleep duration is a key component of overall sleep health, but prior population-level studies characterizing this have relied on

For football fans, the FIFA World Cup is one of the most exciting events on the sporting calendar. But for millions of supporters around the world, following every match comes with a hidden cost: lost...

Since its publication in 1989, the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) has become one of the most widely used self-report instruments in sleep medic…

Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...

The MÖBIUS model proposes that REM sleep gating failures may mis-tag (pre)replay-like sequences as autobiographical memory, linking MCH-orexin balance, CA2 novelty tagging and θ-γ coupling to dream-re...

Purpose of this review Sleep health in childhood is critical for growth and development, however, neurodivergent children (e.g., children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, Down sy...

Adolescence is accompanied by profound changes in sleep—shaped by an interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors. Despite increased emp…

Address child bed poverty. No child should ever have to sleep on the floor.

Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry are studying the effects of being awake between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on decision-making.

Objectives Insomnia is associated with mental ill health, worry and rumination—the two latter contribute to pre-sleep cognitive arousal. These variables also associate with psychological inflexibili...

Sleep health is increasingly disrupted by physical, social, and lifestyle factors across species, revealing shared vulnerabilities within ecosystems. Tahmasian et al. introduce the One Sleep Health fr...

Neuropsychopharmacology - Examining fronto-limbic brain and sleep mechanisms of antidepressant effects in cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia

How your wearable calculates sleep stages, what three independent validation studies found when comparing consumer devices to polysomnography, and how to read your sleep data knowing its limits.

To examine the effect of a brief behavioral intervention aimed at optimizing sleep duration in children on their overall health-related quality of lif…

AimThis study investigates the effects of various nap durations (40, 60, and 90 min) on physical and

Recently there have been initiatives to ban or reduce the use of smartphones in children and young people. While exemptions are typically made for tho…

A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...

Research exploring sleep, mental health, wellbeing and behaviour change, with opportunities for professionals, researchers, people with lived experience and members of the public to get involved.

This Mental Health Awareness Week we’re asking people to join us in taking action to support good mental health.

The advice puts babies at risk of serious harm, even death, medical professionals have told the BBC.

This study evaluated the efficacy of Goodnight, Poor Sleep, a brief, single-session, peer-delivered sleep intervention based on cognitive behavioural …

What is the purpose of the study? I am carrying out this Master’s dissertation for the MA Inclusion (Autistic Children) programme. I also work full time as a Senior Sleep Advice Consultant for Cerebra...

Supported by both experimental and human data, this study reveals that poor sleep weakens immune responses to influenza vaccination and increases infection risk, highlighting sleep as a modifiable det...

Supporting people across all ages to improve sleep, and provides sleep training to professionals in the health, social and corporate sectors.

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Autistic adults frequently report a multitude of pervasive sleep and related circadian problems. Although these sleep and circadian problems have been identified as a critical and unmet public heal...

Background Sleep disturbances are widely considered to be a transdiagnostic feature of common behavioural and emotional difficulties in childhood, yet most studies treat sleep as a single construct....

Abstract. Bedtime procrastination (BP) has been identified as a significant factor contributing to poor sleep health. While previous studies have examined

Abstract. Insomnia is increasingly recognized as a public health concern; however, undergraduate university students remain relatively understudied. This s

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition marked by communication and social challenges, and repetitive behaviors. Early integr…

To compare intraindividual sleep variability in youths with delayed sleep-wake phase disorder (DSWPD) and insomnia disorder (ID), and to examine the a…

Adolescents experience chronic partial sleep deprivation primarily due to late bedtimes and early school start times. Late bedtimes are partly driven by late (delayed) circadian rhythms. Morning brigh...

Exposure to war is associated with marked impairments in both sleep and mental health, yet the short-term emotional consequences of war-related nightt…

Perceived sleep depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity. This study shows that this relationship weakens during dreaming, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective exp...