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How spontaneous brain activity keeps you alive

Content Provider	TED Ed
Author	Jacobs, Nathan S.
Description	Understanding the function of spontaneous, internally generated brain activity is still a very new and unexplored field of neuroscience. Are you interested in how internally generated biological clocks control our sleep patterns and other aspects of our lives? Watch the TED Talk Our natural sleep cycle. Then watch Why do we sleep? This talk features a circadian neurologist, Russell Foster. What do you think a circadian neurologist does? What are circadian rhythms and why are they important? Interested in learning more about the teenage brain then visit Frontline’s Inside the Teenage Brain. Why might it be important to your health to be aware of how the brain functions? Interested in REM and its importance to memory consolidation? What does it have to do with dreams? Visit this site and find out. Interested in sleep research, and how it started? Read Elizabeth Kolbert’s article, Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness. What effect might staying up all night have on the functioning of the brain? Why do we sleep?, an article from Nature Neuroscience provides insight into why we need to sleep seven to eight hours per day. Then Watch One Family, Different Clocks; a Tale of the brain, genes and sleep cycles. Learn how genetics can alter the body’s internal clock at BrainFacts.org Spontaneous activity in the retina occurs every time you sleep. Here is an interactive demo showing how spontaneous activity and changes in spontaneous activity are essential to how retinal ganglion cells encode visual information. (NOTE: click “step through” button on the left, then go to slide 8)
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Health Psychology Biological Bases of Behavior Consciousness Sensation Perception Science Technology Life Sciences
Content Type	Video
Time Required	PT5M18S
Education Level	Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII
Pedagogy	Lecture cum Demonstration
Resource Type	Video Lecture
Subject	Human Health Health

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