Caloriegallery.com home. Lucas Pereira's Sleep Page. In the course of my studies at Berkeley, I have been able to conduct several of my own sleep deprivation experiments. I collected the most data in Spring of 1994, when I took cs150 and cs184 at the same time. Here is a brief summary of my findings on the different methods of sleep management and deprivation: 8 Hours Every Night This is the theoretical ideal sleep management technique.
Unfortunately, it has been difficult to implement in practice, since I work really slowly on homework. We need to collect more data on this method. 4 Hours Every Night Although similar to the "8-hour" method, we have much more data on this one. 2 Hours Every Night This method is often a last resort during "project crunch times". Sporadic All-Nighters Rather than spreading the misery out over several days, this method concentrates the misery on a single day, which can be advantageous if the experimental subject has few obligations that day.
The Neverending Day The 32-Hour Day The 48-Hour Day. Chimera. The Stranger Within New Scientist vol 180 issue 2421 - 15 November 2003, page 34 Human chimeras were once thought to be so rare as to be just a curiosity. But there's a little bit of someone else in all of us, says Claire Ainsworth, and sometimes much more... EXPLAIN this. You are a doctor and one of your patients, a 52-year- old woman, comes to see you, very upset. Tests have revealed something unbelievable about two of her three grown-up sons. Although she conceived them naturally with her husband, who is definitely their father, the tests say she isn't their biological mother. Somehow she has given birth to somebody else's children. Placebo fraud rocks the very foundation of modern medical science; thousands of clinical trials invalidated. Penn Gazette | Essays | Notes from the Undergrad. By Andrew Newburg | Yawn. Go ahead: Laugh if you want (though you’ll benefit your brain more if you smile), but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience.
Even my colleagues who are researching meditation, relaxation, and stress reduction at other universities have overlooked this powerful neural-enhancing tool. However, yawning has been used for many decades in voice therapy as an effective means for reducing performance anxiety and hypertension in the throat. Several recent brain-scan studies have shown that yawning evokes a unique neural activity in the areas of the brain that are directly involved in generating social awareness and creating feelings of empathy. One of those areas is the precuneus, a tiny structure hidden within the folds of the parietal lobe.
Why am I so insistent? As a young medical student, I was once “caught” yawning and actually scolded by my professor. My advice is simple.