School systems aren’t built for kids who fall asleep and wake up late, the so-called “night owls”, which may explain why these teens are more prone to depression.
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- Positivity & Lifestyle
Spring Forward to Save Energy: How Daylight Saving Time Helps You Cut Your Electricity Bills
Opponents argue that time change impacts our health, for instance through sleep disturbances.
- Health & Medicine
Spanish Physicists Disagree with the Sleep Society and Endorse the Time Change in United States
The researchers go on to argue that modern societies, governed by pre-set schedules, can only seasonally regulate their activities in one-hour increments, as with the current change.
- Health & Medicine
Daylight Saving Time Begins This Weekend: Sleep Experts Warn of Health Impacts and Share Tips to Prepare
Daylight saving time begins this weekend, meaning clocks will move ahead one hour this Sunday.
- Health & Medicine
Brain Cells Identified for Regulation of Sleep-wake Rhythm
by News Releaseby News ReleaseThe circadian rhythm is the ability of animals to synchronise their physiological processes over a period of about 24 hours.
- Mind & Brain
Alcohol Consumption Is Affected by a Protein Linked to the Circadian Rhythm, New Research Finds
by News Releaseby News ReleaseBmal1 is also an integral element in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the master circadian clock found in all mammals that regulates the sleep-wake cycle.