Richard Seymour

@richard-seymour.bsky.social

I am a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester study in Education.

The irony of delving into sleep literature on a particularly sleepy Monday morning… Particularly enjoyed this Nature overview of the role of sleep in adolescent depression and intervention opportunities (interesting suggestion that later school start may not be the answer) doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Sleep’s role in the development and resolution of adolescent depression - Nature Reviews Psychology

Sleep problems are both a symptom and precursor of adolescent depression. In this Review, Gradisar et al. describe how the combination of adolescent sleep biology and psychology predisposes adolescent...

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An incisive pushback on oversimplied explanations of youth mental health trends: “If political questions such as structural discrimination, economic precarity, exposure to violence and opioid use are not regarded as shaping our wellbeing, what motivation remains for taking action?” bit.ly/4918hvz

Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media – here’s the evidence

Here’s why I disagree with Jonathan Haidt. Young people have been on a trajectory of worse mental health since before the advent of social media.

theconversation.com