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The Importance of Sleep for a Healthy Life

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Sleep plays an important role in our day-to-day lives and has a huge impact on our memory and thinking. Learn more about why we need to sleep and some of the negative impacts that poor sleep can have on our brains.

Guest: Steven Barczi, MD, Geriatric Sleep Physician, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Connecting Lifetime Stress to Brain Health

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Recent research shows lifetime stressful events, such as divorce, childhood trauma, and military combat, can have negative consequences for brain health and cognition in later life.

Guest: Megan Zuelsdorff, PhD, researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison