Bad sleep habits in children begin earlier than many experts assume. That’s the takeaway from a new study led by McGill University researchers. The findings suggest that official sleep guidelines for young school children should be revisited – and that parents ought to maintain firm bedtime rules throughout children’s primary-school years.

Classified as: sleep habits, bedtime, sleep, school-age children, Reut Gruber, mcgill faculty of medicine, The Douglas, Attention, Behavior, and Sleep Lab at Montreal's Mental Health University Institute and the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)
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Published on: 20 Mar 2018

A new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry by a team led by Salah El Mestikawy, Ph.D., researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’île-de-Montréal), professor at McGill University and head of research at CNRS INSERM UPMC in Paris, opens the field to new understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying addiction in humans.

Classified as: addiction, McGill University, neurons, Salah El Mestikawy, The Douglas
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Published on: 4 Aug 2015
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