Home » News » Recent Articles:

Sleep Deprivation Triples Mental Illness Risk

September 2, 2010 News No Comments

A new study of 20,00 young adults shows that two hours of sleep shortage a night triples the risk of developing a serious mental illness.

Sleep Deprivation Triples Mental Illness Risk

Sleep Deprivation Triples Mental Illness Risk

Compared to a decade ago, young adults are delaying sleep to spend several hours online checking Facebook, surfing the web and playing computer games

All those online activities end up costing them sleep and lots of it.

Medical researchers from George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia, analysed the sleeping habits of almost 20,000 people aged between 17 and 24.

They found over half of those who got fewer than six hours sleep had high levels of psychological distress, compared with one quarter of those who slept the necessary eight to nine hours a night to properly process short term memory and rest their brains.

Professor Nick Glozier, who led the study, said: “Over the past few decades young adults have been sleeping fewer and fewer hours, whereas the rest of us have generally been sleeping more hours.

“There’s a whole load of gadgets that kids and young adults now have in their bedrooms that they never used to have.

“Yet of course they have to get up and go to school or college or go to university at exactly the same time. So there’s a group of them who are becoming more and more sleep-deprived.”

A lack of sleep could have potentially serious effects, he said.

“What we are seeing is young adults who start off with anxiety and body clock problems, moving on to problems like bipolar or major depression.

“In young adults already experiencing distress, the fewer hours they sleep the worse the outcome.”

Psychological distress in the study participants was assessed using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10), that evaluates a person’s mental health problems.

The study results of young adult’s voluntary sleep deprivation appear in the September, 2010 issue of the medical journal “Sleep”.

And that’s the latest from Action News on Sleep Deprivation Triples Mental Illness Risk.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Related posts

Ping: New Music Tool For iTunes

September 1, 2010 News No Comments

Ping: New Music Tool For iTunes – At an Apple news conference today, Steve Jobs announced iTunes 10, which includes a music discovery tool called Ping.

Ping unveiled - a new Apple iTunes music discovery tool

Ping unveiled - a new Apple iTunes music discovery tool

iTunes is a key part of Apple’s industry dominant music package, and at the event, Steve Jobs showed off the newest version, iTunes 10, which adds the intriguing new music-discovery function.

Ping aggregates posts from friends and artists you follow, a function similar to the social-networking features in Twitter and Facebook, and includes a new database with over 17,000 concert listings from those artists.

… Continue Reading

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Related posts

Mom Arrested For Cleaning Toilet With Son’s Toothbrush

Mom Arrested For Cleaning Toilet With Son’s Toothbrush – A Pennsylvania mom was arrested after a long-overdue bathroom cleaning using her adult son’s toothbrush.

Mom arrested forcleaning toilet with son s toothbrush

Investigators say Deborah Woist, 52, decided on July 18 to tidy up a bathroom inside her Springtown Hill Road because it hadn’t been cleaned in two months.

The problem, police said, is that she used her son’s toothbrush for the job and later returned it to its holder. … Continue Reading

Tags: , , , , , ,

Related posts