Night owls who keep a late schedule are 20% to 40% likelier to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder than those who go to bed earlier, according to a study by Stanford Medicine researchers that tracked the sleep habits of 73,888 people.1,2 This was an observational analysis of U.K. Biobank participants, using seven days of wrist accelerometry alongside hospital diagnostic records. The finding caught my attention because of what it actually …
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