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Why do we need sleep? – News-Medical.Net

In this interview, Dr. Gina Poe speaks to News-Medical about why we sleep, and the importance of REM sleep for brain development.

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In this interview, Dr. Gina Poe from UCLA speaks to News-Medical about why we sleep, and the importance of REM sleep for brain development.
Sleep is critical to our everyday health. What provoked your research into sleep?
We carried out this study because there are many theories regarding the function of sleep, but previous analyses found inconsistent relationships based on brain size or metabolism, so we decided to do a rigorous analysis of all parameters, based on scale and over the previous…

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