2-Minute Neuroscience: Benzodiazepines
[2:00] Benzodiazepines are commonly used to treat anxiety disorders and sleep disorders. They are thought to exert th…
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2-Minute Neuroscience: Stages of Sleep
[1:59] Sleep stages are defined based primarily on the measurement of electrical activity in the brain using an electr…
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Why do we dream?
[5:38] In the 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. In the year…
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How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?
[3:24] The guys at ASAP summarize current research made on the importance on the amount of sleep we actually need. [So…
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Why Do We Stay Awake When We’re Tired?
[2:35] It’s late at night, you’re tired, but you just don’t want to go to sleep! Why do we all procras…
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10 Strangest Things People Have Done While Sleepwalking
[7:45] Sleepwalking is actually pretty goddamn scary… [Source: Top Trending YouTube link]…
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Top 10 Facts – Dreams
[6:38] Some fascinating facts about dreams. [Source: LEMMiNO YouTube link]…
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The Science of Sleep: Melatonin to Neural Pathways
Russell Foster, Debra Skene and Stafford Lightman discuss the science of sleep. Why do we need sleep and what are the phy…
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Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams
[4:41] Michio Kaku describes how our prefrontal cortex disengages as we dream, thus suppressing the fact-checking co…
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The Mind After Midnight: Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep?
[1:25:40] We spend a third of our lives asleep. Every organism on Earth—from rats to dolphins to fruit flies to microo…
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