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Why Sleep?

Speaker: Professor Jim Horne
26th October 2002

What happens to our brain and body when we sleep what's it all for?Is "beauty sleep" real or just imaginary, like our dreams? How much sleep do we need? What is the real danger of sleep loss? Is modern society sleep deprived? Is dreaming that important, and who has the greater fantasies the dreamer or the dream interpreter? The acid test of insufficient sleep is excessive daytime sleepiness, but many insomniacs don't complain of this why?

These are some of the questions that Jim Horne will attempt to answer, and explain further, in a not too technical illustrated talk on a subject that still, after many years working in the field, fascinates him.

Jim Horne is director of Loughborough Sleep Research Centre, a leading Sleep Research Centre in the UK, and one with a world-wide reputation. He is also editor of the Journal of Sleep Research.

In addition to these two formidable tasks, he is Professor of Psychophysiology in the Department of Human Sciences at Loughborough University, where his major areas of interest are: sleep loss, sleep function, qualification and quantification of sleepiness, circadian rhythms, driver sleepiness and accidents, neuropsychology of the frontal lobes, and sleep need.

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