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To review the short- and long-term effects of daylight saving time (DST) on neurological and psychological disorders as well as neurocognitive and neuropsychological processes that affect societal functioning.

Circadian disruption causes sleep duration and quality to worsen after the spring transition to DST and throughout DST, which lasts from the second Sunday in March through the end on the first Sunday in November in the USA. Sleep disturbances in the setting of DST are more likely to impact adolescents, evening types (i.e., night owls), and those with early start times, which disproportionately affect poor and minority communities. There is a short-term increase in stroke incidence and, in susceptible populations, depression after the spring transition in March. Mostly indirect sleep and circadian data support the effect that DST has memory, learning, judgment, attention, and …