Sweet Dreams: The Science of Sleep, Part 1

UW Medicine’s 2014 Mini-Medical School is a series of lectures and demonstrations designed to teach viewers about medical science, patient care and leading-edge research underway at the University of Washington.

Sleep can often be a barometer of your overall health. Presenter Nathaniel Watson, M.D., tells us why it’s a problem for one in three people. He also also presents the fascinating story of one woman whose rare disease can seemingly make her sleep for months or even years.

Nathaniel F. Watson, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor, Neurology, University of Washington

Health and Medicine

02/25/2014

[CoachAMWilliams]

Thanks Alanna for the education surrounding KLS.  You have made us all more conscious of the subject.  I personally appreciate your courage and passion to promoting awareness and allowing us to support you every step of the way.

[mareeschena]

You are an amazing advocate for suffers of KLS Alanna, great work.

[yourmiraculousmind]

Great posting Alanna. I have never heard of KLS before. The brain is such a complex piece of machinery and it must be very debilitating to constantly have your sleep interrupted. Glad to hear you have a support system in your loving family. Fascinating post.

[deepakjacob]

I am getting irritated, sometimes when I sleep I see glimpses of some thing that hasn't happened yet for me and I forget and later i remember all again at the time of happening. Every dream won't be like that but some but if it is frightening for me I won't forget, once I said the dream to my mom when I was studying at school something exactly happened like that after 2 years. I tried to change the outcome but I failed. It seems like the life is recorded, no matter how hard I tried to change it eventually it repeats

[ChowRanch]

Thanks so much for sharing info on KLS, Alanna!

[SiMon-lxgk]

we did'nt control fire until thousand years ago?? Shit i completely forgot the Romans, the greek and the Egyptians lived without the control of fire ...

[DeannaWaters]

This is fascinating.  Thank you Alanna, for being willing to represent this disease so that more research and better treatments can be found.

[rajeevbhasin]

As a patient for last 13 years and currently in the episode. I think researchers going on a wrong direction. They are treating patients for symtoms and not the cause. They treat for EDS . Cognitive. Mood swings. But none of them address the cause. Which is not wakefulness.. But waking up refreshed and rejuvenated.
It is the issue when we sleep and how the Nuerotramitter work in the brain and set your body and brain Perfect.. This is not happening in KLS. Please address this..

[zakzerkich]

I thought that the reason for the Chernobyl meltdown was due to poor decisions on the account of Anatoly Dyatlov? He was the chief engineer (or something similar) in the room and told the operators to perform the test outside of set parameters. That's what I thought, I didn't think that it was due to sleep deprivation, rather bad decisions.