A new U.S. study suggests bipolar disorder in teens could be tied to sleep impairments.
According to research done by Jessica Lunsford-Avery, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues, sleep impairment was significantly connected to mania and depression symptoms and psychological impairment in younger people with bipolar disorder.

"Psychosocial treatments focusing on sleep stabilization may prove effective in improving the prognosis of adolescent bipolar spectrum disorder-related sleep irregularities," the team wrote in the journal Psychiatry Research.

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