A team of scientists has identified five different sleep profiles that link the quality of a person's shut-eye with a variety of health, psychological, and lifestyle outcomes.

Although it's something we all do frequently, the science of sleep is still pretty murky.

For the new study, the scientists examined multiple aspects of sleep quality and how they related to a variety of outcomes.

They analyzed information on 770 healthy young adults collected through the Human Connectome Project, which includes brain imaging data as well as patient-reported sleep, health, and lifestyle characteristics.

With all this together, the team identified five distinct sleep-biopsychosocial profiles that show unique patterns of brain network organization.

The first profile links poor sleep with negativ

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