Just 15 Extra Minutes of Sleep Is Linked to Brain Benefits in Young People

We know sleep quality is vital for good health, that adolescence is an important time for brain development, and that teens don’t always get a huge amount of sleep – and new research gives us some fresh insights into how that all fits together. With data for 3,222 adolescents between the ages of 9 and 14 years of age, researchers from institutions in China and the UK split the cohort up into three groups: those with the worst sleep habits (averaging 7 hours, 10 minutes per night), those with the best sleep habits (7 hours, 25 minutes), and those in…