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Sleep vs. wakefulness

The discovery of sleep and wakefulness centres in the brain came about as the result of the spread of a brain disease called Encephalitis lethargica between 1917 and 1928. The disease, characterized by a lethargy that turns its sufferers into living statues, became the subject of the Oliver Sachs book Awakenings (1973).

The brain’s sleep centres