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Corvid Thanatology (CROW FUNERALS) with Kaeli Swift

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Effects of Glucose on the Brain

My dad had to get a PET scan like a cancer patient would. It is exactly the same process. Your brain uses glucose, you know, as it works. Whatever part of your brain is working the hardest is going to use the most glucose. And then what happens is after that period where we've shown them the stimulus, which we only have about 15 minutes or so to do that,. We can anesthetize the bird and put it in the scanner. Then once the scanner is done, we can take the bird out,You know, keep it while it wakes up. And then it's free to go. Bye.

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