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#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Did You Discover the Dream of Understanding Sleep?
In the UK, you can sort of start doing medicine at age 18 and it's a five year program. When I was doing my PhD, I was trying to identify different forms of dementia very early on in the course. And I started to realize that some parts of the brain were sleep-related areas. Some dementias were eating away those sleep- related areas. Now we've had to upend the question rather than saying, why do we sleep?
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