Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do I need to sleep for a long time at night?

Sleep‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ is essential in keeping us healthy, productive, and emotionally stable. The majority of people are aware that lack of sleep is detrimental to health, but only a few know that too much ...

During slow-wave sleep, the cortex alternates between UP states of vigorous firing and DOWN states of near-silence; the Sst-Chodl neurons broke this pattern. “Their activity is even higher at the ...

So how much sleep do kids really need? It’s more than many parents may think. The National Sleep Foundation recommends 14 to 17 hours for newborns, 12 to 15 for infants, 11 to 14 for toddlers, 10 to ...