So someone who is a child usually goes to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 at night, but then when they have a circadian rhythm shift, it shifts later. And this is natural. And they start to go to bed at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 and they want to sleep later. So we see this a lot in teens.
Shelby HarrisSo there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.
Shelby HarrisSo, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.
Shelby HarrisWe actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.
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