Inflammation is an integral part of animal biology. It provides critical protection from adverse
environmental factors by enforcing the defense of homeostasis and the functional and …

Despite sleep's fundamental role in maintaining and improving physical and mental health,
many people get less than the recommended amount of sleep or suffer from sleeping …

Modern societies are experiencing an increasing trend of reduced sleep duration, with
nocturnal sleeping time below the recommended ranges for health. Epidemiological and …

Elite athletes are particularly susceptible to sleep inadequacies, characterised by habitual
short sleep (< 7 hours/night) and poor sleep quality (eg, sleep fragmentation). Athletic …

Sleep is a complex physiological process and is a critical determinant of physical and
mental health. In the past decades, significant progress has been made in understanding …

The seasonal cycle of respiratory viral diseases has been widely recognized for thousands
of years, as annual epidemics of the common cold and influenza disease hit the human …

According to data compiled by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland, more than two and half million cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

The discovery of reciprocal connections between the central nervous system, sleep and the
immune system has shown that sleep enhances immune defences and that afferent signals …

The clinical and societal measurement of human sleep has increased exponentially in
recent years. However, unlike other fields of medical analysis that have become highly …

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 …