The Cost of Daylight Savings
By Mary Bullock Cooper
Spring forward an hour in March or fall back an hour in November… you know the drill. It’s once again that time of year when everyone…
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Knowing Migraines – Not “Just” Headaches
For Migraine Awareness Week, from September 5-14 this year, Federica Raguseo created an infographic to raise awareness – click here to read more.…
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Why are legislators trying to get rid of daylight saving time?
It’s that time of year again when the days are getting shorter and the clocks are moved back. While many of us may consider the biannual time change to be…
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Lo Que Aprendí al Realizar Seguimiento de Mi Sueño con Fitbit Durante Dos Meses
Artículo original: What I Learned from Tracking My Sleep with Fitbit for Two Months, Joel Frohlich
Traducido por Daniela Semerjian y Delaney Ivey
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Si alguien me hubiera dicho hace un…
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La Parálisis del Sueño ¿Qué es y qué lo causa?
Artículo original: Sleep Paralysis: What Is It and What Causes It?, Mira Rakicevic
Traducido por Valia Gregory
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La parálisis del sueño es un tipo de parasomnia (un término general…
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Neuro Cartilla: El Envejecimiento
Artículo original: Neuro Primer: Aging, Gabrielle Torre
Traducido por Daniela Semerjian
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¿Qué le sucede al cerebro en el envejecimiento?
El envejecimiento normal viene con muchos cambios en la estructura…
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Neuro Cartilla: El Sueño
Artículo original: Neuro Primer: Sleep, Joel Frohlich
Traducido por Daniela Semerjian.
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Es fácil preguntar: “¿Por qué dormir?” Pero también podemos darle la vuelta a la pregunta: “¿Por qué despertarse?”…
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So that’s what the claustrum does!
Three years ago, I asked “What the heck is a claustrum?” In that piece, I described the mystery of this oddly shaped brain region, located just below the cerebral cortex.…
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Sleep Paralysis: What Is It and What Causes It?
Sleep paralysis is a type of REM parasomnia or abnormal behavior that takes place during the REM sleep cycle. Also known as sleep atonia, this condition refers to the feeling…
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What I Learned from Tracking My Sleep with Fitbit for Two Months
If someone had told me a year ago that he sleeps with his watch on at night, I’d probably wonder just how eccentric of a personality I was dealing with.…
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Neuro Primer: Sleep
Spanish Translation also available here: Neuro Cartilla: El Sueño
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It’s easy to ask: “Why sleep?” But we can also turn the question on its head: “Why wake?” We need…
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Neuro Primer: Aging
What happens to the brain in aging?
Normal aging comes with many changes in brain structure and function. As individuals approach the age of 65 years and above, they experience…
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Our Dreams Have Many Purposes, Changing Across the Lifespan
lthough radically different in terms of their content and feel, the range of dream states are just as complex as waking states. If we look across an individual’s lifetime, we…
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The Wisdom of the Sloth: Is Sleep a Lost Virtue?
In the sixth century, Pope Gregory I compiled an infamous list of seven deadly sins. Of these seven, sloth is the only sin named for an animal in English. But…
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Consciousness: The Final Frontier
When I walk through my kitchen, I smell fresh food and feel warmth radiating off of it. These internal, subjective experiences are called qualia. I assume that my refrigerator, my…
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The inescapable nightmare of fatal familial insomnia
A family curse
During the early 1980’s, an Italian physician was investigating a mysterious and dreadful disease that had long plagued his family. In earlier generations, this disease had killed…
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How to Give Thanks Like a Neuroscientist
You’re on your way to the traditional Thanksgiving family get-together. You drive down a familiar street, locate your familiar house, and park in a familiar spot.…
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Weird animal brain: Bottlenose dolphin
Marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales, and porpoises, spend their entire lives at sea. Like us, they need to breathe, avoid danger, and care for their young. Like us, they…
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This is Your Brain on Starbucks
My father often jokes that hundreds of years from now, future anthropologists will speak of the cult of the Seattle goddess, her shrine adorning every airport, shopping mall, and train…
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Learning from Disorder: The Paradox of Information in the Brain
In Dante’s Inferno, the fifth circle of Hell is a place where the wrathful fight each other for eternity. Similarly, I often consider YouTube comments to be an extracanonical circle…
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Screensavers of the Brain: The Science of Dreaming
Each night, you place your head on your pillow, close your eyes, and, barring insomnia, you lose consciousness of the world around you, drifting into blissful oblivion. Eventually, you reawaken,…
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Messing with the ‘Flip-Flop’ Switch: Why Getting Sick Makes You Sleepy
We all know how it feels to be sick. The fatigue, increased sleep, and general malaise that accompany a cold are the primary reasons people stay bedridden when ill. Even…
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WIDE AWAKE at #SfN14
There’s always one person snoring through the talk you’re trying to listen to at SfN. That person might even be you at some point during this meeting! Whether you are…
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Sleep ‘til you’re Hungry. Eat ‘til you’re Sleepy.
Have you ever tried to go to sleep hungry? Believe me, it doesn’t work. You just end up lying in bed, listening to your stomach growl, and dreaming about your…
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Sweet Dreams or Amyloid Nightmares
Sleep deprivation has become a badge of honor in our modern society. Competitions break out in coffee shop lines over who is functioning on the least number of Zzzzzs and…
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From Turkey Comas To New Disease Treatments
Neurodegenerative disorders, like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease, are devastating. As you can imagine, witnessing the slow and progressive loss of a loved one’s mental and emotional states is an extremely…
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Disruption of Circadian Cycles Linked to Weight Gain
Every night during finals week, I studied into the wee hours of the morning and caught only a few hours of sleep. It was exhausting! After finals were over, I…
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Let There Be Light!
When I was an undergraduate student, I was an expert at pulling “all-nighter” study sessions prior to exams and project deadlines. Once everything was said and done the next day, many of my classmates…
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Can you learn while you sleep?
As a student, I have admittedly entertained the idea of learning by osmosis. Who wouldn’t want to catch some shut-eye with a textbook as your pillow and absorb all its…
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