When Goldilocks chose the bed that was “just right”, she may have been on to something. Researchers have found that getting too much sleep can leave you as prone to depression as getting too little.
Two studies were carried out, one on adult twins and the other on teenagers, to examine how the amount of sleep we get triggers genes linked to depression.
The results from the study of twins, which are published in the journal Sleep, found that sleep patterns outside the normal range increased the risk of depression.
Nathaniel Watson, associate professor of neurology and co-director of the