Is Sleep Deprivation Stunting Our Kids’ Brains?

“Half of all adolescents get less than seven hours of sleep on weeknights. Using newly developed technological and statistical tools, sleep scientists have recently been able to isolate and measure the impact of this single lost hour. Because children’s brains are a work-in-progress until the age of 21, and because much of that work is done while a child is asleep, this lost hour appears to have an exponential impact on children that it simply doesn’t have on adults.”