When Waking up After Decades Turned out to Be Temporary

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Around 1917, an unknown illness dubbed "sleeping sickness" caused people to suffer severe sleepiness and delirium. Some even became paralyzed for decades until a temporary cure was discovered in the 1960s. The story of this illness is tragic but offered new insight into how our brains function. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1073797/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29555881 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291398/ https://www.movementdisorders.org/MDS/About/Movement-Disorder-Overviews/Parkinsons-Disease--Parkinsonism.htm http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/04/15/100-years-encephalitis-lethargica/#.WtODEX8h2Uk https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923006000451 https://psychopharmacologyinstitute.com/cns-receptors/d2-receptors/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih

Published 2018-08-02 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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