By Professor Grant Schofield One of the most important things to understand in a good night’s sleep is melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone. It’s suppressed during the day when you’re exposed to bright light, particularly light containing blue...
By Professor Grant Schofield What happens when we sleep? Let’s have a look at the sleep cycles, particularly dream sleep vs deep sleep (or Rapid Eye Movement and non-REM) in humans and other animals. At the start of the night, you’re in a light sleep....
By Professor Grant Schofield So, let’s just take it from the start. Before a baby is born, when you’ll feel it kicking around and moving – which is all very exciting – interestingly, the baby is probably asleep and dreaming. They haven’t...
What’s more important to you – your left arm or your right foot? What would you rather keep if you had to lose one or the other? It’s a stupid question I know. Because both are independently useful and important. Yet I’m asked a very similar question all the time....
