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Special Report - Health Care - May 10, 2012 |
Washington State University sleep scientist Jonathan Wisor has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to delve deeper into the links between sleep and brain metabolism.
The four-year project will examine why the brain's use of glucose drops sharply during sleep. Glucose is used as an energy source by the body. The brain uses it to fuel its electrical activity, a metabolically demanding process that accounts for as much as 25 percent of the body's gluco...
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The four-year project will examine why the brain's use of glucose drops sharply during sleep. Glucose is used as an energy source by the body. The brain uses it to fuel its electrical activity, a metabolically demanding process that accounts for as much as 25 percent of the body's gluco...
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