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SNOOZE ALARM Shaving off just a couple hours of sleep a night for a week causes huge lapses in mental performance--doubling the response time to stimuli, for instance. To regain mental agility, two eight-hour nights of sleep are needed...
...tendency today," says LaBute, "is for movies to rush over you with everything but thought. A wave of stimuli rather than the most important thing, which is something to take home in your head." In the Company of Men is the toxic antidote to such disposable entertainment. Love it or loathe it, the picture sticks to you like guilt sweat after adulterous sex. It leaves a little spoor trail. Food for thought? No, a banquet for debate and denial...
...recorded in their molecular structure. "Think of the spinal cord as a voice-mail system," says neurobiologist Allan Basbaum of the University of California, San Francisco. "A message comes in and leaves something behind." The longer the injury persists, the more sensitive the spinal nerves become to painful stimuli--and the more intensely they signal the brain that something is wrong...
...they are somehow irreconcilable. Candles don't smell like gas and neither they nor pure gas fires produce ash. Where is the wood, or the warm smell of gunpowder? In the end, Meireles leaves us not with easy equivalencies, but heightened perception through the uncanny juxtaposition of carefully chosen stimuli...
Environment matters. For anyone wondering how the latest brain research applies to the care of infants and toddlers, that is the crucial finding. Yes, proper brain development is a matter of genetics and nutrition and whether a mother-to-be drinks or smokes, but it also depends on the stimuli, as the scientists call them, that a baby receives. It depends on what the baby sees, hears and touches and on the emotions he or she repeatedly experiences. But if environment matters, we are faced with a question: At a time when children suffer from perhaps the gravest social problems...