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James Goodwin

James Goodwin
Professor James Goodwin PhD is a director of the Brain Health Network (www.brain.health) and a special advisor to the Global Council on Brain Health. He holds a Honorary Chair at the University of Exeter Medical School and is a Visiting Professor in Physiology at the University of Loughborough. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He lives in Devon, England.


Why Do We Need Sleep? A History

James Goodwin on the Physiological Underpinnings of the Body’s Need to Reset
January 6, 2022  By James Goodwin
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