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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State

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Biological Sex Is a Variable

There is a growing trend at least among NIH funded grants to require that as they refer to it in the grants biological sex as a variable. Hormones have huge effects on our behavior and we should be studying hormones, not just sex. I'm very happy that you mentioned I'm trying to get into calmer states prior to sleep and some ways to do that. There's some good data really mostly out of a laboratory in Scandinavia showing huge increases in nigrostriatal dopamine when people engage in a practice of deliberate non movement.

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