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143: Dr David Cunnington (MD) - Sleep Specialist, Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre

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The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Health and Performance

Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre deals with sleep disorders and conditions in somnia, sleep apnea, and the variety of other conditions. Can you speak to this sleep disorder space and what happens with sleep deprivation? What are the actual effects that it can have on health and performance? Most of the sleep deprivation is voluntary - I've got better things to do than sleeping so I'm going to push sleep as far into the corner as I possibly can. That's actually society-wide, a very big problem because you've got a large subset of society that's under-slept.

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