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What is the average total sleep time for newborns?
At what age do newborns start having distinctive NREM and REM sleep stages?
What percentage of sleep time do 3-month-old infants spend in REM sleep?
What is the average recommended sleep time for high school students?
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Do teenagers require more or less sleep than school-aged children on average?
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What happens to the sleep needs of adolescents compared to what many people think?
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What percentage of teens actually got a minimum of eight hours of sleep, according to the study?
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What was the trend in sleep duration for American teens from 1991 to 2012?
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What contributes to shortened sleep duration among adolescents?
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Why may teens find it hard to fall asleep early enough on Sunday nights?
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What percentage of college students fail to get enough sleep (defined as eight hours a night)?
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Which group is particularly likely to get insufficient sleep among American teens?
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What contributes to the circadian clock being delayed during adolescence?
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What is the average amount of sleep college students get during the week, according to the Jawbone study?
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What is the recommended average nightly sleep duration for teens?
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Older adults often have lighter, more easily interrupted ______
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Teens may not feel sleepy until around 11 p.m. The average high school starts at 8 a.m., which doesn't leave enough time for 9 hours of ______
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College students are another vulnerable group. Half report daytime ______
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High schools progressive enough to start later in the morning reap the benefits of more alert students, as well as reduced truancy and drop-out ______
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Girls, racial/ethnic minorities, urban students, and those of low socioeconomic status were particularly likely to get insufficient ______
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One study from Jawbone, makers of Up, a sleep tracking device, showed that college students slept an average of 7.03 hours during the week and 7.38 hours on ______
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Teens tend to be sleepier by day than ______
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Psychological and financial stressors, overconsumption of stimulants and alcohol, and noisy living conditions may disturb ______
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Nighttime use of backlit electronic devices such as ______
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A sleep duration of seven hours is two hours under the recommended average of nine hours a ______
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At first, newborns don’t have consolidated periods of ______. Total sleep time averages 16 to 18 hours.
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By 3 months of age, newborns have distinctive NREM and REM sleep stages, spend about 50 percent of their sleep time in ______ sleep, sleep 14 to 15 hours a day, and do more of it during the dark of night.
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School-aged children still need an average of 10 hours of ______ a night, with a range between nine and 12 hours.
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More than 55 percent of middle school and more than 70 percent of high school students are not getting the recommended number of hours of ______ each night.
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Teens still require an average of nine hours ______ a night, with a range between eight and 10 hours.
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Many people think that sleep needs decrease markedly with ______.
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