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Brain disconnects during deep sleep, UW study says
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^
| Sept. 29, 2005
| JOHN FAUBER
Posted on 09/30/2005 5:53:03 AM PDT by Obadiah
As we slip into deep sleep, higher regions of our brains take a vacation from each other, disconnecting so much that consciousness is snuffed out and a once highly integrated organ becomes separated, according to a groundbreaking experiment by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alzheimer; brain; schizophrenia; sleep
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To: Obadiah
I would really like to understand why my dreaming brain can dredge up faces from my distant past. Not only that, why those faces are people who never really played a major part in my life but I find myself talking to them as old friends?
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:14:17 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:15:44 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Some drink to silence the voices in their heads. I drink to understand them.)
To: satchmodog9
Explains how all the libs I know sleep until noon. Bloodsucking vampires are accustomed to sleeping during the day anyways.
CC
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:25:08 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Billy Tauzin about Louisiana: "half the state is under water, the other half is under indictment")
To: GSlob
I've always done my best work before lunch. Of course lunch often came at 3PM. };^)
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:26:10 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Able Danger? What's an Able Danger?)
To: sergeantdave
Been there. I'm going to be thinking about horseradish all day.
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:29:34 AM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: cripplecreek
I would really like to understand why my dreaming brain can dredge up faces from my distant past. Not only that, why those faces are people who never really played a major part in my life but I find myself talking to them as old friends?Yanno, I've wondered the same thing. I had a dream the other night about a girl who went to high school with me. I don't think I said ten words to her in four years of high school, but in the dream, like you say, we were old friends.
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09/30/2005 6:31:51 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(God grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who have gone before me.)
To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
Serious article about consciousness.
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:35:17 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
To: Terabitten
That's the way my dream was last night. I knew the girl from school and knew her for the better part of twenty years but we were never friends and I never felt any attraction for her. Suddenly last night I find myself sitting in my great grandmothers livingroom of all places talking to this girl like we've been friends all along.
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking "what the...."
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:43:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Obadiah
"It advances our understanding," Steriade said. "Non-scientists should care about this research because it relates to what makes us humans."
I thought animals had brains, slept and dreamed, too. Does that mean that... oh, yeah, I get it!
To: uncbob
That is why sleep is called the Little DeathMy doctor once told me that the reason you sometimes wake up with a start just as you fall asleep is that the brain is reacting to what it senses as impending death. He said going to sleep and dying are not that far apart (as far as what your brain senses).
To: Obadiah
The 'disconnect' period is permanent feature of Liberals.
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posted on
09/30/2005 6:53:30 AM PDT
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: marvlus
Liberal mind, like "liberal thinking," is a major oxymoron.
To: XEHRpa
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posted on
09/30/2005 7:06:55 AM PDT
by
Freedom_Fighter_2001
(When money is no object - it's your money they're talking about)
To: PatrickHenry
I once dreamed that I was teaching a class; I woke up, and sure enough, I was.
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posted on
09/30/2005 7:19:37 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Obadiah
It works different in my mother-in-law and my totally worthless brother-in-law (if you know him he probably owes you money). The brain automaticly disconnects the instant the mouth flys open.
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posted on
09/30/2005 7:29:50 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(ISLAM. The religion of the criminally insane.)
To: Obadiah
If this was done in Madison; it makes perfect sense.
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posted on
09/30/2005 7:35:13 AM PDT
by
STD
(Every Knee Shall Bow)
To: PatrickHenry
To: Obadiah
saganite made a good point - a few more words would be nice...
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posted on
09/30/2005 7:48:37 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(When incentives are switched, patterns change. Until then -- same old, same old.)
To: manwiththehands
" "reconnect" "synchronize
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posted on
09/30/2005 7:52:54 AM PDT
by
spunkets
To: Roccus
Hmmm... I am about as troglodytic as they come [thus no librul], but I am an extreme "owl" and prefer to keep vampire hours and to sleep till 3pm if I only could do so. The best ideas usually come to me between 8-9pm and 4am.
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posted on
09/30/2005 9:01:48 AM PDT
by
GSlob
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