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"When the Clock Shifts: A Comprehensive Review of Daylight-Saving Time (DST), Circadian Disruption, and Neuropsychological Risk in Chronic Mental Illness"

🔬 By Liahm Blank, Joshua Khorsandi et al. from University of Nevada Las Vegas, New Mexico State University, Walden University, USA

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What are the main findings?-
Daylight Saving Time (DST) transitions act as a population-wide circadian stressor, leading to sleep disruption, cognitive impairment, emotional dysregulation, and short-term increases in psychiatric symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
- Individuals with chronic mental illness appear particularly vulnerable to DST-related circadian misalignment due to underlying biological and neuropsychological susceptibilities, including disruptions in melatonin, cortisol, and clock-gene regulation.

What are the implications of the main findings?
- DST transitions should be recognized as predictable, modifiable risk periods in clinical practice, warranting anticipatory guidance, sleep stabilization strategies, and closer monitoring of high-risk psychiatric populations.
- At the population level, findings support growing calls to reconsider or eliminate seasonal clock changes, as DST may represent a preventable environment risk factor for adverse mental health outcomes.

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When the Clock Shifts: A Comprehensive Review of Daylight-Saving Time (DST), Circadian Disruption, and Neuropsychological Risk in Chronic Mental Illness Daylight Saving Time (DST) creates abrupt, externally imposed circadian disruptions that can impair sleep regulation, hormonal balance, cognitive performance, and emotional stability. Although these effects are known in the general population, individuals with chronic mental illness, whose circadian...

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Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment and Lifestyle Interventions Cognitive decline early identification plays an important role in developing potential strategies in the population, ranging from healthy individuals to those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The evaluation of cognitive abilities in healthy subjects allows for the detection of impairment at an ...