Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport!
Why do we sleep? And what does sleep have to do with memory, trauma, and our emotions? Like virtually every other animal, humans need sleep to survive.
But why? On NOVA "Mysteries Of Sleep," scientists peer into the brain to see what happens while we snooze and understand the powerful role that sleep — or lack of it — plays in memory, trauma, and emotion regulation.
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