He describes how the overtired brain and body make us vulnerable to cancer, Alzheimer’s, depression, anxiety, obesity, stroke, chronic pain, diabetes and heart attacks, among other medical conditions. In Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, published by Scribner and released earlier this month, Walker guides readers through decades of sleep research. “The silent sleep loss epidemic is one of the greatest public health challenges we face in the 21 st century,” says Walker, who has served as a sleep consultant to the NBA, NFL and Pixar Animation Studios, among other Fortune 500 enterprises. Walker, 43, a native of Liverpool, U.K., is dead serious about the dangers of sleep deprivation - now more than ever, perhaps, as bedrooms everywhere glow from the screens of round-the-clock technology consumption. “It was a striking demonstration of the emotional and personality impact of insufficient sleep,” marvels Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and leading sleep evangelist. Their makeup had been slapped on by two similarly sleep-deprived female students. By morning, the two were grinning maniacally with lipstick and mascara smeared across their faces. There was that time, for instance, when two straitlaced football players stayed up all night in his campus lab for a memory experiment. UC Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker and his new book, Why We Sleep (Courtesy of Matthew Walker)
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