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Is Sleep for the Weak?
As a college student, you can only have two of the following: good grades, social life, and sleep. I didn’t want to have to choose; I wanted all three, which lead me to the conclusion that I would inevitably have to decrease the amount of hours I could sleep, which inevitably led to the inability [...]
The Search for the Explanation behind Sudden Unexplained Death
During an uneventful afternoon on March 19, 2012, Guy and Lena Wolfe laid their daughter, three-month old Mia Roance Wolfe, down for a nap. Within twenty minutes, she was dead. Mia had been a perfectly healthy baby, having just completed her routine checkup without any problems. However, the same absence of problems resulted in the [...]
Shifting Hormones: Consequences of Sleep Deprivation
Sleep, a process as natural to most humans as breathing, often remains unappreciated until the painful symptoms of its absence—the lethargy, impaired cognition, and increased appetite known to many—manifest themselves. Sleep’s importance was bluntly unveiled in an 1894 study that deprived dogs of sleep until they died. “In contrast to dogs dead from starvation, those [...]
reMIND – Creative Eccentrics: Making the Connection
Known as “Japan’s Edison,” Yoshiro NakaMats holds the world record for patents, with over 3,000 to his credit. You can thank NakaMats for the digital watch, the CD, and the DVD, just to name a few of his most popular inventions1. However, his method for invention, as well as his daily routine, may strike you [...]
Dying Without Sleep: Insomnia and its Implications
Ideally, humans sleep for at least eight hours every day, meaning that we spend about a third of our lives “unconscious.” Scientists have yet to agree on why this unconsciousness is vital, but we know that without sleep, all mammals and birds would die [1]. Because sleep has only become the subject of research in [...]
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