Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental

Mess. As technology advances, sleep duration decreases, or so we have been told.

But are these two phenomena directly connected in a cause and effect fashion?

And does this apply to all age groups? It does seem entirely

intuitive to believe that they are and most people have experienced a level of

this happening in their lives, made especially so since we are immersed in this

message that using technology in the evening is bad for sleep.

However, evidence over the past 10 years has actually shown that the link between technology

and sleep is much more nuanced and complex than originally thought, which is what

I'm going to unpack for you in today's podcast.

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Let's dive in.

Well, welcome back to Tonight's Neural Live and tonight I'm going to be talking about

a screen time really a bad thing.

Now all we hear about is how bad screen time is and how blue, how blue lights are going to blue lights that are emitted from our screens are going to

cause problems by increasing our arousal.

It's been a massive thing as we know for a few years in the well be pretty much the research

across the world has been talking about this so tonight I want to talk about

this and I want to tell you about some new information that is actually saying that it's not such

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