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Take this study with a grain of salt. It only shows that teens who engage in risky behavior are more likely to get less sleep, not that less sleep leads to risk
by bena 8y ago
Take this study with a grain of salt. It only shows that teens who engage in risky behavior are more likely to get less sleep, not that less sleep leads to risky behavior in teens.
- chillacy 8y agoWe know in small scale sleep lab studies that low sleep leads to changes in emotional processing (one of the functions of REM sleep is to tune your emotional regulation), so that at least offers a plausible mechanism of action. As far as risky behavior though, you're right that causation isn't yet firmly established here. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-catcher/201112/rem-sleep-emotional-regulation-and-prefrontal-cortex https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-catcher/201112... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163498/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163498/