Sleep is vital for our health, but according to the CDC, more than one in three adults say they are not getting sufficient sleep.

Now, new research suggests it's not just how much sleep you get, but when you are going to sleep and waking up that matters.

A recent study from the Imperial College London found night owls, those people who stay

up late and wake up later appear to have superior cognitive function,

while early risers had lower scores on the cognitive test.

Azizi Sechas is the Associate Director

at the Center for Translational Sleep

and Circadian Sciences at the University of Miami.

Professor Seychos, thank you for joining.

The researchers in this study found that people who stay up late had quote superior cognitive

function while early birds had the lowest scores how did they reach this

conclusion well this was a large study done in the United Kingdom with

about 26,000 individuals and essentially what they were trying to do is that they

looked at different what they call chronotypes people people who were mourning folks, people who were even folks, and people who were in between.

And what they tried to do was to look at the relationship between those individuals who said they were mourning versus people who are in between and those folks who were at night.

And they found that individuals who said that they were intermediate in between morning and evening and and those individuals who were nightolds,

they had better cognition in this study.

And this is a very large study, and it really

provides a unique interesting opportunity for us to

understand the timing of sleep and the type of sleep where you are when you most

optimally will do better in your day.

How does this study compared to other research done on this topic?

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