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🗓️ 22 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Why sleep? Of all the things that you could commit so much of your time to, because it appears |
0:07.3 | you've been really thinking and working on the subject matter of sleep for about sort of 20 |
0:11.3 | odd years, two decades roughly? Yeah, something like that, yeah. Why? Well, I think the first thing |
0:16.5 | is, is that we spend a third of our lives doing it. |
0:22.0 | And yet we, whatever people like me will tell you, |
0:25.3 | we still understand relatively little about it. |
0:28.7 | We understand relatively little about, you know, what it's for, |
0:32.5 | what it does to our biology. |
0:34.7 | Obviously, that's changing very, very quickly now. |
0:41.2 | It has a great deal of overlap with the world of clinical neurology. So I also do, I do specialist clinics in epilepsy |
0:48.1 | and I do specialist clinics in general neurology. So, and sleep and the brain intersect at every single level. Of course, |
0:57.5 | you know, it's not me saying this, but a famous statement is sleep is of the brain, by the |
1:02.3 | brain and for the brain. It's intimately linked to every aspect of how our brain works. |
1:08.1 | So one of the really exciting things is that because it's a relatively |
1:11.8 | new area, our understanding of it is exploding in ways that are not paralleled across other |
1:19.9 | areas of clinical medicine. Is it important? Is it important? Yeah. I think it is of fundamental importance. |
1:29.3 | You know, the fact is that if sleep wasn't important, it would be a very stupid thing for evolution to create in us. |
1:37.3 | The fact that we are essentially switched off from our external environment for a third of our lives. |
1:43.3 | And actually there's a whole |
1:44.4 | host of evidence when you look at how certain animals have developed the ability to be able to |
1:50.4 | sleep with only half their brain at a time, you know, animals like aquatic mammals or certain birds |
1:55.5 | and dolphins that very much suggests, well, you know, that must be of great importance if it's, if sleep is |
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