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Patrick McNamara
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Impact of traffic on air pollution in a mid-sized urban city during COVID-19 lockdowns
In this study, we evaluated the changes in air pollutant concentrations around Milwaukee, WI, during and after lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic for a period of 126 days. Measurements of particulate matter...
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Use of 2.0-mm endotracheal tubes for periviable infants
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Reply to correspondence
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Alcohol-induced performance impairment: a 5-year re-examination study in heavy and light drinkers
The theory of behavioral tolerance to alcohol posits that greater experience with drinking to intoxication leads to less impaired cognitive and psychomotor performance. However, the degree to which behavioral ...
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Association of salivary-assessed oxytocin and cortisol levels with time of night and sleep stage
There have been proposals for REM to have a function of emotional memory consolidation, and also for REM sleep to be involved in the promotion of attachment behaviour. The hormones cortisol and oxytocin, respe...
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Neural Substrates of Alcohol-Induced Smoking Urge in Heavy Drinking Nondaily Smokers
A strong link exists between cigarette smoking and alcohol use, which may be explained by the experimental observation that alcohol ingestion promotes cigarette craving and precipitates smoking. At the neuroan...
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Alcohol-induced increases in smoking behavior for nicotinized and denicotinized cigarettes in men and women
Alcohol has been shown to increase smoking urges and smoking behavior. However, alcohol’s effects on specific components of smoking behavior for nicotine versus non-nicotine factors and potential sex differenc...
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Open AccessParasite resistance and the adaptive significance of sleep
Sleep is a biological enigma. Despite occupying much of an animal's life, and having been scrutinized by numerous experimental studies, there is still no consensus on its function. Similarly, no hypothesis has...
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Neurologic Constraints on Evolutionary Theories of Religion
Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) experience a selective depletion of neostriatal and meso-frontal and thus provide an ideal model for assessing potential dopaminergic influences on religious and expe...
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Open AccessTo sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms
All animals thus far studied sleep, but little is known about the ecological factors that generate differences in sleep characteristics across species, such as total sleep duration or division of sleep into mu...
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In collaboration with the Canadian Critical Care Society, the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia is proud to publish the best posters presented at the Toronto Critical Care Medicine Symposium 2003 (Adult and Pediatric) held in Toronto, Ontario, October 30 – November 1, 2003
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Rem sleep, early experience, and the development of reproductive strategies
We hypothesize that rapid eye movement or REM sleep evolved, in part, to mediate sexual/reproductive behaviors and strategies. Because development of sexual and mating strategies depends crucially on early att...
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Counterfactual Cognitive Operations in Dreams
We hypothesized that counterfactual (CF) thought occurs in dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation or novel outcome (recorded in episodic memory) and then to integr...
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Counterfactual Thought in Dreams
Counterfactual cognitive simulations are considerations of what might have been if what actually happened could be undone. I hypothesize that counterfactual thought is characteristic of dreams and that cogniti...
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Frontal Lobe Function and Pain in the Elderly
We review the literature on pain and aging and conclude that evidence supports a hypothesis that right frontal cortex contributes to the mediation of the chronic pain experience in elderly persons with chronic...
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Handedness and Dream Content
We tested the hypothesis that dream content would vary as a Junction of handedness. Seventy-nine self-reported right-handers and 30 self-reported left-handers provided written descriptions of a r...
