Science of sleep
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This is a conversation with Giorgio Gilestro. He is an associate Professor at Imperial College London. His work focuses on sleep and consciousness. In this conversation we talk about what is sleep, importance of sleep, how we can measure it?, impact of sleep deprivation and sleep for healthy lifestyle.
About the guest
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:44 Motivation to work on sleep
00:02:29 What is sleep?
00:06:48 Sleep and circadian rhythms
00:09:02 Sleep in non-human animals
00:11:32 Is sleep a necessity?
00:17:53 Sleep at cellular level
00:22:01 Sleep deprivation experiments
00:33:15 Consequences of sleep-deprivation
00:41:36 Consensus on sleep-deprivation in scientific community
00:49:37 Sleep training
00:55:33 Can someone die because of sleep-deprivation?
00:58:53 Link between sleep and neurodegeneration
01:00:44 Do plants sleep?
01:04:06 Sleep and consciousness
01:11:25 Further reading
01:15:08 Neuroscience needs evolution
01:17:42 Sleep for the lifestyle
01:19:55 Thank you!