Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! There’s a lot about sleep that we don’t understand, like why we even sleep in the first place, for example. Here are some amazing discoveries biologists have made while trying to solve the mystery of sleep.
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Sources:
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6429/fatal-familial-insomnia
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198610163151605
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/magazine/3-case-study-fatal-familial-insomnia-location-venice-italy-to-sleep-no-more.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016643289500020T
Brain activity
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12576-015-0414-3
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/74/1/9
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/81/2111/597
Brain centers
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12576-015-0414-3
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1932-00279-000
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923006000463
Memory
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763414002474
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768102/
Healing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16120095
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9456469
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987711002234?np=y
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299128/
Pain
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakultaeten/ppp_professuren/physiologische_psychologie/Publikation/sleepmedicinereviews.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25915149
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/216974
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/176677
Blue light
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/q-a-why-is-blue-light-before-bedtime-bad-for-sleep/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23509952
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1232
Dishwasher
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24199995
Ancestors
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26654373
