Studies Find New Links between Sleep Duration and Depression

  • Posted in Snoring
  •  By Loran Simon

woman taking a restDr M. Safwan Badr, president of the Academy of Sleep Medicine, emphasizes that prioritizing sleep will promote physical, mental and emotional health. A recent study of 1,788 adult twins was the first that demonstrated a gene by environment interaction between self-reported habitual sleep duration and depressive symptoms.

Dr Nathaniel Watson, the principal investigator, reports that the heritability of depressive symptoms in twins with very short sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time. The genetic influence on depressive symptoms associated with short sleep duration of five hours per night increased to 53%. Both short and excessively long sleep durations activate genes related to depressive symptoms. Treatments for depression can therefore be maximized through optimum sleep.

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