The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning (54 page)

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Neurons . . . need a period of reduced activity to reset
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Rise of depression related to . . . severity of the breathing problems
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SAD . . . light therapy . . . raise alertness levels
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David Gozal . . . ADHD if they had sleep apnea
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Prefrontal parietal network . . . is . . . underactivated in ADHD
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Bipolar disorder . . . ties with sleep
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Abnormalities in genetic and molecular processes that regulate sleep
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Increased coffee drinking . . . lower incidence of depression
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Poorer quality sleep . . . impair[s] . . . working memory
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Michael Chee . . . lack of sleep . . . less efficient prefrontal parietal
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Robert Thomas . . . studying adults with sleep apnea
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Light therapy . . . boosts . . . attention and working memory
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ADHD children working memory . . . especially low
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Baba Shiv . . . the difficult . . . number . . . likely to choose . . . cake
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Reduced working memory . . . psychological cause of [schizophrenic symptoms]
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Schizophrenics also have a dysfunctional prefrontal cortex
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Well subjects . . . Ritalin . . . prefrontal functions more efficiently
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You actually need a medium amount of dopamine
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Schizophrenics . . . deficient glutamate . . . knock-on effect on dopamine
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Normal people, ketamine can . . . turn them into schizophrenics
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Schizophrenics . . . ketamine . . . exacerbate all their symptoms
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About 40 percent of schizophrenics gain any benefit
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67 percent of schizophrenic patients report [adverse side effects]
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Anecdotal evidence . . . schizophrenics function better . . . never been prescribed
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Sandeep Patil . . . created a drug that targets
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Single genes . . . turned on or off . . . sections of DNA . . . change neurotransmitter function
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Genes coding for dopamine and prefrontal function . . . psychiatric conditions
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Genes . . . respond to SSRIs . . . pass the blood-brain barrier
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Novel brain-scanning . . . measure neurotransmitter changes
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Healthy nonelderly people don’t gain any generalized improvement
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