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(Harding) Sleep deprivation and depression go hand in hand according to Mahmood Siddique, a sleep medical specialist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In another study done by SLEEP in 2010, more than half of 262 high school seniors reported being excessively sleepy when reading, watching TV, and doing homework. Siddiqui says that the best cure for these symptoms of sleep deprivation depression is to work on getting the correct amount of sleep for one's age. (Harding) By pushing back the start time of school, kids would be able to get up to an extra hour of sleep, and that could go a very long