«We were surprised that the heritability
of depressive symptoms in twins with very short
sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time,» said principal investigator Dr. Nathaniel Watson, associate professor of neurology and co-director of the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medi
sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins
sleeping normal amounts
of time,» said principal investigator Dr. Nathaniel Watson, associate professor
of neurology and
co-director of the University
of Washington
Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medi
Sleep Center in Seattle, Wash. «Both short and excessively long
sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medi
sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms,» added Watson, who also serves on the board
of directors
of the American Academy
of Sleep Medi
Sleep Medicine.
And functioning effectively — without guzzling gallons
of coffee — could require even more time between the sheets, says Dr. Nathaniel F. Watson, a professor
of neurology and
co-director of the UW
Medicine Sleep Center.