"I've seen patients cooking a meal in their sleep driven in their sleep committed crimes in their sleep so what is the story of Kenneth Parks he drove several miles to his in-law's house bludgeoned his..."

"[Music] episode guy should I say doct guy what is it that is at the very sort of heart of your personal curiosity because as I look at your work and how what you've committed your career to there seem..."

"of day-to-day and and if you if I was to take a look at your CV what would I see on your CV I uh studied medicine at Oxford and then at Imperial uh and very early on in my career started training in t..."

"between 2013 and 2023 you ran gu St Thomas's Hospital Sleep Disorder Center that's right yeah what is that so the the Sleep Disorder Center is probably one of the largest sleep disorder centers in Eur..."

"things that you could commit so much of your time to because it appears you've been really thinking and working on the subject matter of sleep for about sort 20 OD years two decades roughly yeah somet..."

"medicine is it important is it important yeah um I I think it is of fundamental importance you know the fact is that if sleep wasn't important it would be a very stupid thing for evolution to create i..."

"thousands and thousands of people that struggle with sleep that have been sent to your Center do you think the the average person on the street over or underestimates the importance of sleep in their ..."

"can you give me an overview of the current state of sleep in terms of the percentages stats of people that are struggling with their sleep the variety of ways that we struggle with our sleep the diffe..."

"you have very vivid dreams you will often hallucinate as you drift off to sleep or as you wake up you'll experience something called sleep paralysis where you wake up and you feel that you are complet..."

"heart of culture and how we're living that's causing so many of us to struggle with sleep the way that modern society is at the moment certainly I think is rather conducive to insomnia in fact you kno..."

"healthy sleep as in you know see these sort of different sleep behaviors and such but is there from a neurology standpoint or clinical standpoint a perfect sleep or a perfect sleeping habit or you kno..."

"happen when someone has a baby in terms of their I was wondering this the other day cuz I have a friend who's had um a couple of kids and I was looking at their sleep tracker and it seems like they ha..."

"get enough sleep the chance of obesity and weight gain increases how how does that happen what's the mechanism so what there are probably many mechanisms but one of the the ones that is best understoo..."

"rhythms if I if I was a 10-year-old what do I need to understand about the Circadian rhythm what it is what it does and why it's important so within pretty much every cell of our bodies there is this ..."

"the light that comes from my smartphone uh so it's so blue light obviously the the strongest source of blue light is Sun yeah um but yes these kinds of devices your smartphone your iPad in front of yo..."

"average person that you've treated worked with in your clinical practice that's struggling with sleep is at the heart of the issue just poor sort of sleep hygiene like you've said there yeah because I..."

"I was in uh secondary school and I remember reading one of the psychology books maybe my psychology teacher told me this I think it was Mrs ly that there was some studies where they shined a light lik..."

"idea of chronotypes which is essentially from my understanding that genetically we all have a slight sort of disposition to sleep in at certain times yes and to wake up at certain times yeah so there'..."

"someone came to and they said I'm struggling with my sleep you know multiple nights in a row I haven't been able to sleep I'm getting in bed and nothing's happening and then I'm waking up and I'm just..."

"obsession with sleep and I was wondering in the case of the patient you've just described would you encourage them to wear a sleep tracker so first of all I have to say that I'm not ideologically oppo..."

"the glymphatic system which I find really which when I discovered this I I it really helped me to understand the importance of sleep can you explain what the glymphatic system is as if I was a 10-year..."

"is there a link between sleep deprivation and Alzheimer's do we see high numbers so there is some evidence to suggest that uh both chronic sleep deprivation and insomnia are associated with cognitive ..."

"recommend slash are you a fan of you reference sleep tablets there sleep medicine medication yeah so as a general we know because I think that there are um good now non-drug based techniques for tryin..."

"people seem to be taking melatonin yeah tablets is is that healthy is that free from side effects so it's not entirely free of side effects um but it's generally a pretty well tolerated safe drug as f..."

"non-medical techniques to improve our sleep so you said typically with with someone that comes to your sort of sleep center instead of going straight to medication as the answer to their sleep issues ..."

"happen here earlier on but it seems that a lot of people believe they have a deviated septum is it called deviated septum uh septum yeah septum yeah septum I've heard some people say that that's the r..."

"relaxing us I don't think we actually know precisely what it's doing okay um when you look at an underslept brain so if I was sleep deprived what what would the difference in my regular sleep activity..."

"because okay so different little parts of my brain are doing little micro sleeps if I'm sleep deprived yes and that from a behavioral standpoint will show up in my day-to-day life as worse cognitive p..."

"this is really significant not just on a day-to-day basis for all of us but also in in clinical medicine and clinical Psychiatry so jumping back to the point about when we're under slept certain parts..."

"we dream it's a big question isn't it it's such a big question the the short answer is I think we still don't know I think there are lots and lots of theories about why we dream that the um those rang..."

"it's not a great evolutionary trait to have nightmares like I can't understand the basis of having a nightmare and why that's a good thing you know I'm not sure that that we're evolutionally driven to..."

"remember the Drey when we wake up um I think that's another unanswered question but it's quite clear that that rapid transition between REM sleep and wake means that the memory of whatever it is that ..."

"ever seen I mean I've seen a lot of very upsetting cases you know I've seen um individuals who have committed crimes in their sleep really um yeah um what kind of crimes so uh was involved with somebo..."

"example of Kenneth Parks yes which is pretty unimaginable yes what is the story of Kenneth Parks so so Kenneth Parks uh was a uh chap who uh was based in Ontario um who um apparently uh in his sleep u..."

"it's likely that actually the majority of the brain is probably awake because it's very hard to envisage how somebody may be able to do something quite so complicated when the majority of their brain ..."

"of people that are because there's various types of insomnia isn't there there's not just one type of inia um I read about this sort of short sleep duration insomnia and then in other insomniacs where..."

"awareness that don't switch off to the same extent at the rest of the brain so whilst the majority of the brain may be sleeping those little areas of the brain that are responsible for our awareness a..."

"he's got a condition called synesthesia which is the melding the the the combining of certain senses so when he sees objects or hears objects he gets a taste associated with them so he gives a really ..."

"that's not you know um living with synesthesia does it does it mean that there is no such thing as truth I think what it tells us is that our our reality what we perceive truth to be is intimately lin..."

"person to blame for these crimes because but then you could obviously stretch that out further and just go when people are serial killers often times we find that there's something in their brain or t..."

"individuals who are very similar to patients of mine in whom I've started an anti-epileptic drug for example exhibit a dramatic change in their behavior and so a simple chemical Tak in tablet form can..."

"emotional memories that we have you know smelling your your your mother's perfume or a particular meal and taking you back directly to Childhood and the impact of smell on emotion on your mood on uh y..."

"Integrity of our brains so there are lots of these aspects of that you can take from Clinical medicine and apply them to what it tells us about ourselves and how our own brains work how has it changed..."

"the the people around them yeah and that stuff stays with you undoubtedly how do you take care of yourself to make sure that that stuff doesn't um the honest answer is not very well really no I mean y..."

"you know the sorts of situations like cardiac arrests which all doctors have to face um personal decisions um you know I think certainly making the decision to study medicine um was a an important for..."