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Why don't we pee when we sleep?
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Neural circuits.: We void in our sleep during infancy, but as we toilet train circuits in our brain are established that maintain continence. These neural continence mechanisms inhibit the contraction of the bladder during sleep. Stroke, brain damage, spinal injury, among others can disrupt this an lead to enureisis, or wetting at night.
Answered 2/25/2018
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