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SUBMITTER: Dunster GP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291308 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dunster Gideon P GP de la Iglesia Luciano L Ben-Hamo Miriam M Nave Claire C Fleischer Jason G JG Panda Satchidananda S de la Iglesia Horacio O HO
Science advances 20181212 12
Most teenagers are chronically sleep deprived. One strategy proposed to lengthen adolescent sleep is to delay secondary school start times. This would allow students to wake up later without shifting their bedtime, which is biologically determined by the circadian clock, resulting in a net increase in sleep. So far, there is no objective quantitative data showing that a single intervention such as delaying the school start time significantly increases daily sleep. The Seattle School District del ...[more]