If you’re a night owl and choose to sleep in late, you may want to rethink hitting the snooze button. Staying up late tends to be associated with heightening negative emotionality: meaning, an increase of issues related to depression, anxiety, and mood shifts.
A study conducted by Simor and Colleagues discovers, regardless of age or gender, evening types, those who prefer evening to morning, were at an increased risk for experiencing increased health problems.
This doesn’t mean that having a disorder is exclusive to a person’s “chronotype” — a fancy word for someone’s sleep schedule.
According to livescience.com, when researchers scanned the brains of people who were classified as night owls or morning larks, they found the night owls had lower “brain connectivity.” This doesn’t mean that having a disorder is exclusive to a person’s “chronotype” — a fancy word for someone’s sleep schedule.