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Ketema Paul – The Ability to Recover from Sleep Loss is Regulated by Biological Clocks in Skeletal Muscle Tissue

Ketema Paul: University of California, Los AngelesSleep loss can severely impair cognitive performance, yet the ability to recover from sleep loss is not well understood. Sleep regulatory mechanisms are assumed to lie exclusively within the brain mainly due to the strong behavioral manifestations of sleep. Whole-body disruptions of circadian biological clocks in mice are known […]

Jeffrey Schank – The Evolution of Fairness

Jeffrey Schank: UC DavisThere are many theoretical approaches to explaining fairness, but explaining fairness without leverage (e.g., genetic relatedness, punishment, or retaliation) is especially challenging. The dictator game (DG) is a fairness game without leverage. One player, the dictator, is given a divisible quantity of some resource (typically money) and must decide how much to […]