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How this weekend’s extra hour in bed could negatively impact your brain

While you might be celebrating the fact you get to bag an extra hour in bed tonight, we’ve got some bad news.

Even though that extra hour of shut eye is very much welcomed, we’re actually entering the darkest time of the year and this could be having a serious impact on our brains, according to one expert.

Dr Elisabeth Philipps, a clinical neuroscientist from the health and wellbeing brand, fourfive, warns that the brain can struggle to adjust to the decreased amount of sunlight we’re going to see now once the clocks go back.

She tells Metro.co.uk: ‘When the clocks go back the days feel shorter and people find themselves waking up in the dark and going to bed in the dark, too.

‘Reduced daylight can be the cause of seasonal affective disorder (SAD).’

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