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What Your Bedtime Says About You with Professor Matt Walker
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Effects of Sleep on the Nervous System
Human beings are the only species that will deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no good reason. When we see other species doing this, it's usually under conditions of very high threat from predators or under conditions of starvation. We don't know where sleep deprived when we're sleep deprived in terms of impaired performance. Your subjective sense of how well you're doing when you haven't got enough sleep is a miserable predictor of objectively how well you've done with insufficient sleep.
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