Jenna Gress Smith, PhD

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. What are the symptoms and risks of sleep apnea? How do you treat and manage sleep apnea?

Brushing your teeth may be part of your nighttime routine, but are there more connections between sleep and oral health?

Sticking to a regular morning wake-up time is one of the best things you can do to improve your sleep tonight. (And the next night, too.)

Recent studies have shown that positive words played during sleep can give us deeper & more refreshing sleep. Here we examine those findings and see how we can apply it to our sleep routines.

Sleep is a crucial part of our health and wellbeing, but rarely makes an appearance on our New Year's resolutions list. We may want to reconsider that.

Studies have shown poor sleep can impact antibody production, which help vaccines do their job. Now that COVID-19 booster shots and options for different age groups are here, researchers are racing to find out how sleep and the COVID-19 vaccines interact.

Alcohol has a sedative effect that someone might mistake as relaxing or helpful with sleep, but from a physiological perspective that is not the case.

Nighttime urination is not a sleep problem itself, however it can affect the quality of your sleep.