How Much Sleep Teen Gets Can Predict Daytime Mood [PsychCentral.com]
New research finds that when teens receive an insufficient amount of sleep they show a heightened variability in sadness, anger, energy, and feelings of sleepiness. Investigators also discovered that a poor night sleep can set up a vicious cycle as nightly fluctuations in sleep among healthy teens predicted a worse mood the next day. Also, a poor mood on any given day predicted unusually bad sleep the next night. Researchers believe promoting healthy sleep among adolescents could potentially...