How Important Is Sleep to the Brain?

How Important Is Sleep to the Brain? (0:19)

Sleep does far much more than help you feel well-rested. In this video, HealthMaker Louann Brizendine, MD, a neuropsychiatrist at UCSF Medical Center, reveals the many physiological impacts that sleep has on the body.

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We're learning more and more about sucker tree in the brain and basically what happens during sleep which is so important to memory, to move anxiety to all kinds of functioning, even to some aspect of causing eating and obesity.