Episode 2: Sleep and Development - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH

Why is sleep so important for youth mental health?

In this half hour panel discussion, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Cambridge, UK), Prof Russell Foster (Oxford, UK) and Prof Ian Hickie (Sydney, Australia) explore the relationship between sleep and youth anxiety and depression. They explain why sleep is so important during adolescence and present some of the ways that young people can learn more about sleep, which can have a positive impact on their health and wellbeing.

00:38 Introductions01:08 What happens to our brains during puberty?02:12 Why are adolescents so at risk of mental illness?04:17 Why is sleep so important for youth mental health?06:57 This is a tractable problem. Why aren't we doing more about it?08:14 Why do young people have different sleep patterns?11:30 For young people, what may improve sleep?19:14 What are the likely pathways between poor sleep and poor mental health?23:11 Why is it important to treat everyone as an individual?

Watch the video version of this show on the Mental Elf YouTube channel.

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