Oral Microbiome Diversity Links to Longer Sleep
With Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, PhD
At SLEEP 2025, the 39th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, in Seattle, Marie-Rachelle Narcisse, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, presented on a study that found greater oral microbiome diversity was associated with long sleep duration in teenagers and young adults. HCPLive spoke with Narcisse at the meeting about the relationship between oral microbiome diversity and long sleep in 13,332 US teenagers and young adults aged 16 – 26 years.
In this Q&A, Narcisse shared what the association between greater oral microbiome diversity and longer sleep in teens and young adults could mean for early-life disease prevention.