To sleep, perchance to dream...or perhaps not if youre one of the 1-in-5 Australians struggling with a major sleep disorder, and the prospect of a good nights sleep is remote indeed.

From sleep deprivation, restless leg syndrome, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis and all the other multitude of reasons 40 winks is often out of your grasp, the latest research offers clues to why so many of us struggle to simply sleep, and why - even when we do - not all our brain sleeps too.

Professor Guy Leschziner is an authority on the brain and the neuroscience of sleep

Speaker

Guy Leschziner - Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine at Kings College London, and a consultant neurologist within the Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals.

Author of "The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience and the Secret World of Sleep published by MacMillan.

This lecture was recorded on the 16th March 2022 at Gresham College, London.

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