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		<title>The Big Bad Ass Book of Dreams.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this in Urban Outfitters and it is based on the works of Freud and Jung. Does dream symbolism actually forecast the future or unveil your unconscious desires for conscious analysis? Not at all! But fabulous book title!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1894</link>
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		<title>Neury Thursday: Further Evidence that BDNF Gates Drug Abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, I read a paper from the Journal of Neuroscience which discovered that BDNF gates alcohol consumption in rodents. When the rodents drank alcohol, BDNF would increase until a certain threshold wherein it would then curb alcohol intake. When BDNF was knocked-down, the rodents would consume endless amounts of alcohol unless BDNF was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1887</link>
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		<title>Amazingly Awesome, Circadian Innovations: The Hair Follicle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese researchers have just resolved a scientific conondrum: how to measure peripheral clock gene expression in living humans and alterations in clock gene expression with lifestyle changes without invasively and routinely sampling heart, lung, or liver tissue? The hair follicle! We already know that the hair follicle is the active ingredient in Polyjuice Potion used to transform [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1880</link>
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		<title>Neury Thursday: Pharmacology Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Typically, when I see basic neuroscience research characterizing presynaptic signaling and postsynaptic receptor responsiveness within one of the big 5 neural systems (glutamate, GABA, serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine) I skim it over and don&#8217;t usually retain much information. Today, however, the sexy title of one of these articles maintained my attention long enough for me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1871</link>
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		<title>WiFi Ban in Canada: Is Sleep Deprivation Really the Culprit???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While listening my favorite weekly skeptic/scientific inquiry podcast, Skeptics&#8217; Guide to the Universe, I heard about the recent protest to ban Wi-Fi in Canadian public schools. Teachers there complain that Wi-Fi, which has low-frequency radiation, is detrimental to adolescent health and school performance. The teachers believe that Wi-Fi is causing headaches and nausea, sending many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1866</link>
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		<title>Rats Pee During Their Active Period. A Surprise? Not Really.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every night between 0330-0430 AM I rush to the bathroom. Of course, I&#8217;m careful not to light pulse myself (see here). It&#8217;s not baffling that we have an endogenously entrained, circadian rhythm of incontinence given that every other hormonally-regulated behavior like sleeping, waking up, and even sexual desire (see here) is entrained by rhythmic hormone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1860</link>
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		<title>Spindles Are Important for a Good Night&#8217;s Sleep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tiny city of Kent (Ohio) borders a major, busy railroad. At least 12 times a day, you hear the multiple blarring &#8220;BAHHHHHHHs&#8221; of the commercial trains crossing intersections late at night or you are constantly stuck at one of these major intersections waiting for a 40-car train to pass. When I first moved here, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1854</link>
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		<title>Neury Thursday: A Neurobiological Model of the ADHD &#8220;Paradox&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has taken Adderall or Ritalin to have &#8220;tunnel vision&#8221; during finals week knows about the unfortunate side effect: the 48 hr period of a racing heart, no sleeping, and the constant urge to move around. But this isn&#8217;t nearly as counterintuitive to the fact that those who are clinically diagnosed with ADHD are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1841</link>
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		<title>Honey, I Shrunk the Brain!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true, our brains are shrinking. Before deciding to blog about this fascinating Discover article, I first and foremost sent it to montegraphia&#8217;s college friend who constantly argues with me about women having smaller brains. And while I attempt to explain the fallacy of his argument in that it is cortical area and not actual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1837</link>
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		<title>Neury Thursday: Neuroanatomically Disentangling Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Journal of Neuroscience is very compatible with a recent posting about http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1814. British neuroscientists have further elucidated neuroanatomical pathologies underlying autism spectrum disorder. Comparable to most mental disorders cataloged in the DSM-IV (soon to be DSM V!!), autism spectrum disorder (ASD). encompasses mild (Asperger&#8217;s syndrome) and severe (full-blown autism) cases of the disorder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dormivigilia.com/?p=1828</link>
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