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A study about sleep and the best advice I ever got. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

As we mark the unfortunate milestone of a full year of stress and sleepless nights for many, I have some good news.

It’s about a new study that suggests if you've been feeling down or depressed, a simple change in your daily habits could lead to marked improvement in your moods.

Writing in npj Digital Medicine, researchers from Michigan Medicine, which is the academic medical center at the University of Michigan, studied the sleep and moods reported by 2,100 people—specifically, early-career physicians who were working as hospital interns.

As anyone who has either (a) practiced medicine, or (b) watched a lot of medical dramas on TV like Grey’s Anatomy or ER (dating myself) will know, the life of a medical intern can be nasty, brutish, and long: irregular hours, calls at any time of night, lack of sleep.

It all adds up. Medical interns reported (unsurprisingly) that it could be difficult for them to maintain a regular sleep schedule.

So, researchers asked them to do three things:

1. wear device…