A new study shows that high school students lose sleep on school nights after the spring change to daylight saving time. The study involved 35 high school students. They had an average age of 16.5 years. Their nightly sleep was measured by wrist actigraphy. [...]
The alarm goes off at 6 a.m. Then it goes off four more times, because an extra 10 minutes of sleep trumps sitting down for breakfast. A granola bar on the bus is the gourmet breakfast of choice. The morning bus arrives at its [...]
High school students have until February 9th to enter the 2015 Sleep Story Video Contest. Sponsored by the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, the contest invites teens to make and submit a creative video about the importance of sleep. Up for grabs is a grand [...]
A new study suggests that teen drivers who start class earlier in the morning are involved in more car accidents than peers with a later school start time. The study analyzed data from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. It compared teen crash rates [...]
The summertime sleep habits of most teens today would be enough to make Ben Franklin blow a proverbial fuse. A 3 a.m. to Noon sleep schedule isn’t likely to meet his standard of “early to bed, early to rise.” But it can be the [...]
For kids, the long summer of sleeping in, staying up late and enjoying leisurely mornings is coming to a rapid close. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) offers tips to help parents adjust their children’s sleep schedules for both success in school and [...]
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what most high school teachers already know: U.S. teens aren’t getting enough sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that teens get a little more than nine hours of nightly sleep for [...]
Teenagers who stay up late during the school year are likely to have lower grades and more emotional problems than their morning lark counterparts, according to a study that looked at the long-term sleep habits of teens. The study published in the Journal of [...]
The American Sleep Medicine Foundation recently challenged high school students around the country to create a video sleep story. A few dozen aspiring scientists and filmmakers answered their call, submitting documentaries, dramas and other creative takes on sleep topics. A panel of sleep physicians [...]
Increasing the number of hours of sleep adolescents get each night may reduce the prevalence of adolescent obesity, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Results of the study show that fewer hours [...]
