A new report from the Mayo Clinic says patients who punch and kick during REM sleep are five times more likely to develop a form of dementia called Lewy bodies. Read more…[...]

Olympic fever is about to descend. The 2012 opening ceremonies on Friday will kick off 17 days packed with 3,147 events and 304 gold medals. The only hitch? The timing. With events[...]

Imagine this: You're having a vivid dream of something chasing you. You run and leap across buildings, jumping and spinning. What keeps your body from actually acting out these[...]

One of the most basic and important topics I write about, and emphasize to my patients, is the idea of sleep hygiene. Sleep hygiene means a routine of healthy, sleep-promoting habi[...]

Earlier this week, Scientific American, published a piece about the science of dreaming in its weekly Mind Matters column. In the article, researcher Sander Van Linden writes about[...]