Mary A. Carskadon

Mar 9, 2024 | thehill.com | Mary A. Carskadon |Lynne Lamberg

At 2 a.m. tomorrow, most of the nation will spring forward from standard time to daylight saving time. We’ll lose an hour of sleep. Residents of every state except Arizona (not including the Navajo Nation), Hawaii and five U.S. territories will have to pretend the sun rises and sets an hour later. Our internal biological clocks will try to adapt to the new artificial time. Most of us will experience sluggishness, poorer concentration and increased moodiness for a week or longer.

Sep 9, 2023 | themessenger.com | Mary A. Carskadon |Lynne Lamberg

For most of the nation’s adolescents, back-to-school season means back to chronic sleep deprivation. Despite the harms of poor sleep on youth being well documented, school policies seem to completely ignore the science. This is a national disgrace. Changes in the brain at puberty push adolescents to stay awake until 11 p.m. or later and sleep until 8 a.m. or later, if undisturbed.