The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk
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The Nature of Sleep Through a Life Cycle
Sleep can be subdivided in two different stages, or two different states. In very young humans there is a lot of rapid eye movement sleep. And the contribution of that sleep state to total sleep time becomes less as the brain er matures. But there is more to age related changes in sleep than just sleep duration. So why do babies sleep so much? Or why does sleep change across the life span s we grow older and we become toddlers?'
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