Can a Lack of Sleep Set Back Your Child's Cognitive Abilities? -- New York Magazine - 11 views
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“Sleep disorders can impair children’s I.Q.’s as much as lead exposure.”
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Please tell parents that even losing an hour of sleep will impair their children. "The performance gap caused by an hour's difference in sleep was bigger than the normal gap between a fourth-grader and a sixth-grader. Which is another way of saying that a slightly sleepy sixth-grader will perform in class like a mere fourth-grader. "A loss of one hour of sleep is equivalent to [the loss of] two years of cognitive maturation and development," Sadeh explains."