With new scientific discoveries being reported in the news and media on almost a daily basis, it's often hard to keep up with all the latest findings, so join us as we select just 4  recent publications from the world of sleep science, exploring the studies themselves, but also the wider context that new sleep research is reported in the media.

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The four news stories we look at are:

[7:20] "Not just blue light, study says prolonged screen time alone disrupts sleep"

alone-disrupts-sleep/13080/

Study link: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)31754-6

[13:15] "Light pollution may cause insomnia in older adults"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181130120446.htm

Study link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30373695

[22:25] "Too Much Sleep Can Kill You, Scientists Say"

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/324475

Study link: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy695/5229545#126392935

[35:42] "Starting School Later Really Does Help Teens Get Sleep"

www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/well/mind/starting-school-later-really-does-help-teens-get-sleep.html

Study link: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/12/eaau6200

This episode’s guest:

Dr Neil Stanley

Dr Neil Stanley has been been involved in sleep research for over 30 years, and describes himself plain and simply as a ‘sleep expert’.

Dr Stanley’s website – www.sleepconsultancy.com 

How To Sleep Well book – https://amzn.to/2PjTZfl

Resources:

Articles about blue light and sleep - http://sleepjunkies.com/tag/blue-light/

Start School Later interview - http://sleepjunkies.com/kids-and-family/start-school-later-interview/

Article about light pollution - http://sleepjunkies.com/blog/sleep-deprived-or-darkness-deprived/

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Jeff Mann: Well, this morning we're with Neil Stanley. Good Morning Neil.

Good morning.

Neil Stanley: Thanks so much for joining us this morning Neil. Can I, can I just ask you before we get into the nitty gritty, in your view, have you seen the amount of research and sleep science increase over the years?

00:44 Neil Stanley: No, absolutely. I mean I've been in this game for 37 years now and when I started one journal published papers about sleep, which was called Sleep, and there was sort of pretty much one textbook which was The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine.

And now there's an absolute deluge of sleep information. I mean, there's tens of sleep journals, but the other thing that perhaps has changed is that papers pertaining to sleep aer published pretty much across the board.