SciShow: Do You Need a Brain to Sleep?

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Content of the Lesson: Start building your ideal daily routine with Fabulous. The first 100 people who click on the link will get 25% OFF Fabulous Premium: https://thefab.co/scishow3 You might think you need a brain to be able to sleep, but organisms with super simple neural networks can still "sleep" sort of like we do. So, if these organisms can sleep too, then what is sleep anyway? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bryan Cloer, Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams, Tom Mosner ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651462/ https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0037-1604351 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aax5440 https://www.nature.com/articles/4351177a https://elifesciences.org/articles/26557 https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/30/4/389/2708189 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb9415 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22654 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4948738/ https://www.livescience.com/44822-how-do-dolphins-sleep.html https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39126993 https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/electroencephalogram-eeg https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(00)80877-6 https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.287.5459.1834 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)31023-0.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06535 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb9415 https://www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolved-before-brains-hydras-are-living-proof-20210518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929498/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-018-0098-9 Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/human-brain-3d-render-gm638943260-114878145 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_well.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mans-best-friend-gm1309758774-399374174 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/african-elephant-resting-gm173871387-8343739 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dolphins-gm531670033-55510392 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dolphin-resting-gm145990097-6058531 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/underwater-photography-of-mammals-dolphins-diving-in-water-and-swimming-to-surface-sunlight-in-water-and-on-skin-dolphins-whirl-and-writhe-in-clear-water-concept-of-natural-environment-and-life-sdw-iecrdkn65z0q4 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/tropical-fruit-fly-drosophila-diptera-parasite-insect-pest-on-ripe-fruit-vegetable-gm1300236924-392625865 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/extreme-magnification-fruit-fly-gm679914528-124571529 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hydra-vulgaris-freshwater-hydroid-gm177320934-20139861 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Types-of-hydra-a-Normal-Hydra-b-Head-of-Hydra-Nerve-cells-are-visualized-by_fig1_221812789 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/751946 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/680527 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enlarged_c_elegans.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/801800 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/721406 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/insomnia-a-man-lying-in-bed-and-can-not-sleep-b0bk-xpqvjrgu0fra https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/andromeda-cassiopeia-gm495690168-78129725 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/yellow-tube-sponge-and-diver-gm1167841984-322224825 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/orange-rubber-sponge-gm1266584143-371321587 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/marine-sponge-gm1204406384-346537648 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sleeping-in-is-my-favourite-pastime-gm1189299504-336697434 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/many-jellyfish-swim-underwater-rmpcs0gaukbtebkao https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dolphins-family-gm1192080061-338567620


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