The mission of the North American Sleep Medicine Society (NASMS) is to investigate, integrate, teach, and advance the science of human restoration.

NASMS studies the biological mechanisms through which the human organism preserves, repairs, regulates, and restores itself, with sleep recognized as a fundamental period during which many restorative processes are organized and expressed.

Our work extends beyond biological mechanisms alone. We investigate the physiological, biochemical, neurological, behavioral, lifestyle, and environmental conditions that may support, impair, or alter restoration. This includes the study of environmental exposures relevant to human health and the sleeping environment, including natural and human-generated electrical and magnetic environments, alongside other physical, chemical, and biological influences.

NASMS brings together knowledge from medicine, neuroscience, sleep science, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, physics, environmental science, architecture, engineering, building science, and other relevant disciplines. We seek relationships across these fields that may be difficult to recognize when each is studied independently.

We research, educate, train, publish, and convene. Our scientific community welcomes professionals across the healthcare continuum—from health coaches, nurses, therapists, complementary and integrative practitioners, physicians, scientists, and researchers—to professionals who shape the environments in which people live and sleep, including architects, engineers, home builders, building-science specialists, and environmental professionals.

Through interdisciplinary investigation and collaboration, NASMS seeks not only to understand how restoration occurs, but also what interferes with it, what supports it, and how scientific knowledge can be translated into conditions that better support human restoration.