• Question: what does the brain do when we sleep and how do we sleepwalk

    Asked by anon-355215 on 14 Mar 2023.
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      Joanne Cummings answered on 14 Mar 2023:

      My area is not sleep so I only have basic knowledge levels but the brain is active when we sleep. We move through a series of sleep stages and a dream stage, and it is argued that the function of the stages/sleep is for restoration, memory consolidation, for example. I’m not entirely sure why people sleepwalk.

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      Eileen Xu answered on 17 Mar 2023:

      I don’t know exactly! It’s thought that there might be genetic links, and stress can be a trigger. Some medications might be linked to it too.

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