Traditional risk factors for obesity and the metabolic syndrome, such as excess energy
intake and lack of physical activity, cannot fully explain the high prevalence of these …

The number of individuals experiencing sleep loss has exponentially risen over the past
decades. Extrapolation of laboratory findings to the real world suggests that females are …

The view that sleep is essential for survival is supported by the ubiquity of this behavior, the
apparent existence of sleep-like states in the earliest animals, and the fact that severe sleep …

Sleep is entwined across many physiologic processes in the brain and periphery, thereby
exerting tremendous influence on our well-being. Yet sleep exists in a social-environmental …

How does a lack of sleep affect our brains? In contrast to the benefits of sleep, frameworks
exploring the impact of sleep loss are relatively lacking. Importantly, the effects of sleep …

Sleep is increasingly recognized as an important lifestyle contributor to health. However, this
has not always been the case, and an increasing number of Americans choose to curtail …

A large body of epidemiologic evidence has linked insufficient sleep duration and quality to
the risk of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. To address putative causal …

Hypothalamic syndrome (HS) is a rare disorder caused by disease-related and/or treatment-
related injury to the hypothalamus, most commonly associated with rare, non-cancerous …

Are you feeling emotionally fragile, moody, unpredictable, even ungenerous to those around
you? Here, we review how and why these phenomena can occur as a result of insufficient …

This narrative review presents the findings from intervention studies on the effects of sleep
deprivation on eating habits, metabolic rate, and the hormones regulating metabolism, and …