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Special | 47m 13s Video has closed captioning.
Stephanie Jones, assistant director of the Institute for Sleep and Consciousness at UW-Madison, discusses the role sleep plays in cognitive and emotional function in child development. Jones explains the process of neural plasticity as children age.
Aired: 09/18/19
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