Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solved
I think they got pretty close. The "synapse maintenance" theory seems right to me.
They don't mention Astrocytes though. They are different brain cells that also contribute to the synapse structure. And they tend not to uncouple when they are swollen. And they get swollen pretty easily from endotoxin induced Blood-Brain-Barrier permeability.
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About Me
- Heidi Lindborg
- Tucson, AZ, United States
- I obsess about obsession because it seems like the best use of the pathology.
Not that I really have any choice...
I believe that the majority of mental illness is secondary symptoms of common chronic infections. I was a medical librarian, and now I just pretty much constantly research sleep disorders, depression, mania and dementia. This is where I collect my accumulating hypotheses and try to document the atrocities occurring daily in the Infection Industrial Complex.
My goal is not to convince you that my ideas are right, but to show you there is more than one way to interpret scientific data.
Update:
After fifteen years of this, I finally think I am right.
Narcolepsy 101- Newbies Start Here
- This is Why
- How to Make a Zombie
- How Narcolepsy Works- in less than ten sentences
- The Finer Points of Progressive Cell Loss
- See the Vortex
- Know Hope
- *** Current Narcolepsy Hypothesis ***
- *** Current Cataplexy Hypothesis ***
- See the Pathology
- Something I wish I had known
- The Crux of the Bisquit
- Winter Is Coming
- Zombie Dental Care
- How to Treat Clogged Sinuses
- How to clear your ears
- Hydration for Zombies
- Insomnia Advice
- Flu, Strep and Narcolepsy
- Narcoleptic Lady Dancing on a Treadmill
- My 100th Post
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Seven Word Summary
Fun with Zombipathy
A hearty recommendation for this quirky zombie movie: Perfect Sense
"A chef and a scientist fall in love as a mysterious epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions."
Almost perfect.