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Sigrid Veasey: The Science of Sleep

Hurry Slowly

CHAPTER

The Role of Technology in Sleep Loss

It is possible that only a short spurt of young adult life at less than seven hours of sleep is significant enough to cause brain injury or lasting changes. We think that the deficits might be more important in young adults and young children than in older people. The longer you practice this, the more pronounced the deficits are. But yeah, we live with devices in front of our face emitting blue light far beyond what we should have when the sun goes down. They're huge issues with blue, the blue light in the nighttime especially for adolescents.

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