This is Your Brain on Sleep

<p>We spend about a third of our lives sleeping, so&nbsp;you’d&nbsp;think&nbsp;we’d&nbsp;know more when it comes to understanding what is going on in our bodies and brains when&nbsp;we’re&nbsp;doing it. But studying sleep is surprisingly complex and there are a lot of ideas&nbsp;trying&nbsp;to untangle why we need sleep. This episode, host Dr. Samantha Yammine is joined by Dr. Jeffrey Iliff from the University of Washington School of Medicine to talk about how sleep affects our brains. Sam also explores what we can learn …