Daylight Savings Time: Effects on health and the debate surrounding it
Clockmakers Rich Finn, left, and Tom Erb adjust the time zone controllers on a series of clocks that'll be installed at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., at the Electric Time Company, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Medfield, Mass. AP Photo/Charles Krupa
Daylight Savings Time occurs every year. How does this change affect or minds, bodies, and our sleep? Some think that we should get rid of Daylight Savings Time and others feel that there should be permanent Daylight Savings Time.
A panel of doctors and psychotherapists discuss all the facets of this annual occurence.
GUESTS
Dr. Sabra Abbott
Physician, Associate Professor of Neurology in Sleep Medicine, Northwestern University
Dr. James Rowley
Physician in sleep medicine, Professor of Medicine, Rush University; Immediate Past President, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Heather Turgeon
Psychotherapist
Co-author - “Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens aren’t Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them.”
Julie Wright
Psychotherapist
Co-author - “Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens aren’t Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them.”