The Neuroscience of Sleep

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"# The Neuroscience of Sleep Richard Caton is watching an animal brain spark. The year is 1879. He's seeing actual electrical pulses... firing through living tissue. He doesn't know what it means yet. Nobody does. But he's looking at the signature of thought itself... flickering in real time. That flicker becomes everything. Forty-five years later, Hans Berger builds a machine to catch those signals in humans. The electroencephalogram. The EEG. Suddenly we can see the brain's rhythm. Awak..."