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- Healthy sleep for teens improves attention, behavior, learning, memory, emotional regulation and mental and physical health.
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- Adequate healthy sleep requires not only duration, but also appropriate timing, daily regularity, and good sleep quality
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- Like all of us, teens have a natural "body clock" or circadian clock that impacts the timing of their sleep. Our internal body clock changes during the teen years, causing teens to naturally stay up later before feeling tired, then not feeling alert until later in the morning.
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- The need for healthy sleep is further complicated by use of screen devices, social influences, and busy activity schedules.
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Insufficient sleep |
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- higher risk for health problems, including obesity, diabetes, depression, hyperactivity or attention deficit disorder, and injuries/accidents
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- higher risk for behavioral problems, including poor impulse control, decreased motivation, inattention
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Academically, insufficient sleep has been associated with: |
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- difficulties in school, including memory, learning, poorer grades, sleepiness in class, disciplinary problems
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