Publication: ScienceDaily

UCLA Expert: Michael Irwin: Professor-in-Residence of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Distinguished Professor of Psychology, College of Letters and Sciences; Director, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience; Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center

Synopsis: A warming planet doesn’t just mean more people may find it harder to get quality sleep. There is also evidence suggesting that sleep disturbance could make it harder for the body to fend off infection.

UCLA News: "No one has previously put together this notion that the ongoing climate crisis is contributing to sleep disturbance and that it's possibly contributing to the altered risk of infectious disease we're seeing," Irwin said.

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