  I can't wait for neurology. nbsp;  Most people tell me that neurology,  unless destiny has you slated to be a neurologist,  is nothing short of torture. nbsp;  Memorizing slides of this tract and that tract,  this special visceral afferent or that general somatic afferent pathway,
 not to mention all the delicate intricacies of psych diseases ( that IS included in neuro,  right?  that have seemed to taken hold of us all these days.
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 Mostly,  though,  I am interested to learn where my brain's sleep center is,  how it operates,  and finally,  why it is that I can sleep upwards of 14 hours straight.  Touching upon what little I know about the human body's sleep patterns,  I heard somewhere that you can make up for lost sleep by oversleeping,  that in the end,  if you sleep 3 hours one night and 13 hours the next,
 then you average your 8 hours a night,  and everything's square.
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 I also heard that this doesn't just work for two nights in a row,  that you can be sleep- deprived for a few days,  or weeks,  or months ( say,  for example,  during medical school)  and that after steadily and faithfully " sleeping back"  those lost awakened hours,  you can get even with Mr.  Sandman.
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 I seriously wonder if this is true.
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 Perhaps verification for me comes in the form of an article in JAMA ( of which there probably already is one out there)  something using big,  science- y words that make it hard for me to understand or even concentrate on reading.
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 (
My favorite is all those long rants inside parentheses,  the ones with italic capital letters and numbers showing references and standard deviations and all that stuff:  GLU- C2. 5 SD:  - 0. 13;  GLUC2. 6 SD':  8. 24;  R )
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 Maybe that is why,
 left to my own devices and now with a newly- installed air conditioner in my room,  I just slept almost 12 straight hours and still feel like I could go back for seconds.  Let's do the math here:  I was awake all day Wednesday,  went shopping,  went beaching,  and then went to work from 11 p. m until 6 a. m.
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 Thursday morning I came home and slept soundly ( new AC!
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from 7 a. m.
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to noon.
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 5 hours.
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 Thursday night I slept from 1 a. m.  to noon.
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 Eleven hours.
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 11 +  5 =  16.
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 16/ 2 =
 8.
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 EIGHT HOURS!  Mother Nature must have gotten an 800 on the math SAT's.
