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S3 E22: The Science of Sleep Q&A

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Is It Possible for Someone to Have a Brain That Cannot Sleep?

Has there ever been a documented case of brain damage that completely knocked out or blated someone's ability to sleep? Y? So the the models that animal models saing the ully done with oblation to various areas, alternatively amd with knock out gens. Of course, am specifically to the hypothalamis and specifically to the s and the super casmetic nuclei. Once that goes things are ep is difficulty. You don't get that switch which flicks you into seeand. Ando promises is the losit what about the exact opposite of insomnia, which is pasically ouse ust cannot stay awake.

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