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Health & Medicine

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AI model predicts disease risk while you sleep

Research

The first artificial intelligence model of its kind can predict more than 100 health conditions from one night’s sleep.
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Daylight saving time tied to higher rates of stroke and obesity

News

According to a new Stanford Medicine analysis, most Americans would be healthier if clocks weren’t changed twice a year.
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Understanding the bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health

Research

Stanford Medicine researchers explain how sleep shapes our moods – and ways to repair broken slumber to improve mental health.

‘Step by step, we’ve made a huge amount of progress’

Profile

Molecular biologist Luis de Lecea is mapping the brain circuits that control sleep so we can manipulate them for a better night’s rest.

Childhood sleep disturbance linked to suicidal thoughts

Research

Kids with highly disturbed sleep or frequent nightmares at age 9 or 10 were more likely than sound sleepers to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors by age 12, a Stanford Medicine-led study found.

Sleep study finds night owl behavior could harm mental health

Research

In a new, large-scale study of sleep behavior, Stanford Medicine scientists found that night owls don’t really thrive late at night.
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Four questions for Jamie Zeitzer on daylight saving time

Q&A

The co-director of the Stanford Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences dishes on the science (or lack thereof) behind ”falling back.”

Sleep impacts reaction time as much as alcohol

News

In a test of reaction times, people who were tired because of disrupted sleep performed about as poorly as subjects who were legally drunk.
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