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Screens at Bedtime Rob Young Teens of Sleep
Middle schoolers who spend time on smartphones, laptops, and tablets in the hour before bed are likely to sleep poorly and be more tired the next day, a new study shows.
Researchers looked at the effects of screen time at bedtime among 345 children aged 12 to 14 over a six-month period.
They found that spending time on media devices before going to bed disrupted sleep and had a “bidirectional” effect such that poor sleep led to more bedtime media use.
“So it creates this vicious cycle where engaging in bedtime media use can result in poor quality sleep, which over time fuels more bedtime media use,” said Atika Khurana, an associate professor in the Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department at the University of Oregon and research scientist at the Prevention Science Institute.
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A shared home environment is the strongest predictor of human microbiome similarity, or the commonalities between the communities of microbes that live within us, researchers report.
“Our results demonstrate that the early life home environment can significantly alter the gut microbiome in childhood,” says lead author Hannah Tavalire, a research associate at the University of Oregon’s Prevention Science Institute.
“Human beings have this whole rich diversity of microbial life associated with them that contributes to our health in all kinds of ways, and one of the mysteries is why they differ so much from person to person,” says Brendan Bohannan, professor of biology and chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. “This study was an attempt to ask what the relative importance is of the environment that humans live in versus the genetics we have in determining the microbes that are associated with our bodies.”
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