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Rewiring the body clock: Deep brain imaging reveals unexpected complexity in jet lag adjustment

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This region governs essential behaviors like the circadian clock, sleep, energy balance , and feeding. But what we observed was much more complicated." But technical limitations have made it hard to understand how neurons in this area form functional circuits." Some SCN neurons were activated by light, while others were inhibited.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. He was a terrible diabetic. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. This shouldn’t have happened.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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And their death rate was so high during Omicron because they had distrust to the vaccine and distrust to the government. And one in five people had a serious COVID complication. They once said every child, not every child but many children got diabetes from COVID. Monica: Yes. Yes, good point. Eric: Yeah.