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Six weeks of moderate sleep restriction increased weight, waist circumference, and sedentary time in adults with baseline adequate sleep and elevated cardiometabolic risk.

Sedative-hypnotic drug effects vary with meal timing, metabolism, and drug half-life in patients with insomnia. These pharmacologic factors influence sleep onset and maintenance, particularly in patients with psychiatric comorbidities requiring concurrent medications.

Sleep midpoint variability, duration variability, and social jetlag were each associated with lower receptive vocabulary and visuospatial memory scores in 379 preschool-age children, with executive attention unaffected by any sleep regularity measure.

A machine learning sleep EEG score measured in midlife was associated with neuropsychological performance over a decade later in a Framingham cohort.

A 2-week randomized trial in 86 adolescents combining personalized sleep scheduling with morning bright-light glasses and evening blue light–blocking glasses shifted circadian timing 45 minutes earlier and added 47 minutes of weeknight sleep versus controls.