Advanced sleep phase disorder is a rare condition that causes your natural circadian rhythm, or sleep-wake cycle, to occur earlier than typical. As humans, our sleep-wake cycle— also known as our ...

Researchers from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City have identified the genetic component of Familial Advanced Sleep-Phase Syndrome (FASPS), the inherited form of Advanced Sleep-Phase Syndrome ...

We often read about, or may know someone—often a high school or college student—who stays up way too late and then has a very hard time getting up in the morning. When bedtimes and wake times both get ...

Is your internal clock keeping you awake at night? Delayed sleep phase syndrome may be to blame, and it's more common than you think. Arielle Burton was an associate content manager on CNET's ...

In adolescents and young adults, delayed sleep-wake phase disorder (DSWPD) may be associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and restless legs ...

In the 1990s, a woman approached sleep neurologist Christopher Jones at the University of Utah with an unusual complaint. She would fall asleep very early in the evening and wake up for the day at 2AM ...

Secondary, or comorbid, insomnia results from or coexists with another illness or condition. Examples of such disorders that can bring about secondary insomnia include: medical conditions, neurologic ...

Sleep disorders can affect people of any age. Delayed sleep-wake phase disorder, restless legs syndrome, and insomnia are a few examples of disorders that may disrupt sleep cycles in teens. Sleep-wake ...

A. Restless legs syndrome, also known as “Ekbom syndrome,” is an unexplainable dysesthesia of creepy, crawling, pulling leg sensations, associated with the irresistible urge to move one’s legs.

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published on Jan. 10, 2020. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this ...