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e findings were made, says Frank. The UCSF team determined that animals allowed to sleep for six hours after the period of visual deprivation developed twice the amount of brain change as those cats kept awake in a dark room during those six hours. The animals allowed to sleep also had twice the amount of change as the cats evaluated immediately following the period of visual deprivation. Finally, the cats allowed to sleep even had slightly more brain change than those animals who were kept awake in a light room with continued visual stimulation through one eye and whose brains had therefore had had twice as much time to respond to the light stimulus with just one eye open.

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Contact: Jennifer O'Brien
jobrien@pubaff.ucsf.edu
415-476-8432
University of California - San Francisco
25-Apr-2001

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