The good news and the bad news
for insomniacs like me!
Russell Foster is a circadian
neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do
we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third
of our lives.
In this talk, Foster shares
three popular theories about why we sleep, busts some myths about how much sleep
we need at different ages -- and hints at some bold new uses of sleep as a
predictor of mental health.
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