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		<title>For Sleep Apnea Patients, a breathing &#8220;Pacemaker&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating: an alternative to the CPAP mask that is an effective (but bothersome) treatment for apnea. Apnea occurs because the body totally relaxes muscles during deep sleep, which lets the airway collapse under negative pressure of inspiration. So this neurostimulator &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=684">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ian Parker: The Search for a Blockbuster Insomnia Drug : The New Yorker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice article on the efforts to get approval for a new type of sleep drug, based on the orexin receptor that was linked to narcolepsy at Stanford. Ian Parker: The Search for a Blockbuster Insomnia Drug : The New &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=674">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Brain scans decode dream content</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is some pretty cool stuff. Perhaps in the future people will be able to record dreams and sell them for others to experience, like DVDs. Brain scans decode dream content &#124; Mo Costandi &#124; Science &#124; guardian.co.uk.]]></description>
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		<title>Brain deterioration, sleep woes linked &#8211; SFGate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Berkeley study links brain atrophy of aging with both poor sleep and poor memory retention. But the question is, does the atrophy lead to both poor sleep and poor memory directly, or does the poor sleep interfere with long-term &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=596">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot &#124; Fox News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Narcolepsy perhaps caused by a swine flu vaccine&#8211;this is one scary vaccine tale that has some scientific backing. Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=579">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Learning while sleeping: infants do it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one time there was a mania for learning while sleeping. People played recordings of physics lectures while they slept in hopes of learning during the brain&#8217;s down-time. Later science showed that these techniques did not work. There is a &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=524">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Running and the evolution of man (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I distinctly remember watching Survivor: Africa in 2001 and realizing how vulnerable early man must have felt. The Survivor contestants were sleeping in a traditional african Kraal, which was simply a circular fence of thorny acacia bushes. At night, lions &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=504">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Running and the evolution of man (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exercise builds the brain. Yet more strong theorizing summarized in this NY Times column: Anyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=501">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep and nighttime awakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article from the BBC on the naturally bimodal sleep patterns that predominated before artificial lighting kept people up late. A pretty good review, although it doesn&#8217;t mention that this was most common in the winter, when people &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=331">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep, &#8220;energy&#8221; and mood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain Hacking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study using twitter to evaluate mood over the course of the day reveals that people&#8217;s mood rises in the morning, lowers in the afternoon, then rises again in the evening. Hmmm. Where have I seen that curve before? &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=220">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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