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#37: Sleep and Memory - Part 3
Episode 37
The final installment of this series focuses on what happens inside your brain during deep, non-REM sleep that allows you to fixate new memories. The…
3 years, 4 months ago
#36: Sleep and Memory - Part 2
Episode 36
Previously, we learned sleep is necessary before learning to prepare the brain to learn effectively. But sleep is also needed after learning to cemen…
3 years, 4 months ago
# 35: Sleep and Memory - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 35
It is a fundamental truth that sleep is far more than the absence of wakefulness. It is an incredibly active state, demonstrated by the fact that num…
3 years, 4 months ago
# 34: Sleep and Sex – Part 2
Season 1 Episode 34
It’s been said that sleep is the new sex, and rightly so—a good night of sleep is going to do many things for the vibrancy, intimacy, and vitality of…
3 years, 5 months ago
#33: Sleep and Sex – Part 1
Season 1 Episode 33
A few years ago, a survey by the Sleep Council in England found that 1 in 4 people in a couple would get up during the night and go to another room t…
3 years, 5 months ago
# 32: Insomnia - Part 7
Episode 32
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) can be split into at least five core components: 1) sleep restriction therapy, 2) sleep hygiene, 3) …
3 years, 6 months ago
# 31: Insomnia - Part 6
Episode 31
Very understandably, many insomnia patients try to self-medicate their condition with varied “sleep aids”. The tragedy us that most of them not only …
3 years, 6 months ago
# 30: Insomnia - Part 5
Episode 30
Some of the first neurological-related discoveries about insomnia were made by placing healthy sleepers or patients with insomnia inside brain scanne…
3 years, 7 months ago
#29: Insomnia - Part 4
Episode 29
Today’s episode focuses on changes within the bodies of people suffering from insomnia. Almost all forms of chronic insomnia come with a significant …
3 years, 7 months ago
#28: Insomnia - Part 3
Episode 28
Today’s episode takes two questions as its subject: first, why does someone develop insomnia, and second, what adds gasoline to the sleep-disorder fi…
3 years, 8 months ago