How the Brain Works: Night Terrors and Sleep-walking, Video 8 of 20

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This video deals with sleep problems arising in deep sleep, notably sleep terrors (also called night terrors) and sleep-walking. It is the eighth of twenty videos on how the brain works and the last of four on the brain science of sleep and sleep disorders. It describes how sleep terrors arise within the human brain and how they work. It then deals with how sleep-walking arises, the hazards of sleep-walking, how such hazards can be reduced, and how sleep-walking can be treated.