Deprivation Experiment

An experiment in which animals are raised in an environment impoverished in some fashion, as a means of identifying factors essential for developing species-specific behaviors
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His craziest career moment was a sleep deprivation experiment he did for The One Show.
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Drawing from the initial sleep deprivation experiment, rats were sleep-deprived for 6 h starting at 7:00 am by gentle handling and sacrificed at 1:00 pm together with non-sleep-deprived controls.
Sleep deprivation influences circadian gene expression in the lateral habenula
In the study - the largest sleep deprivation experiment ever - 142 adults with an average age of 30 were restricted to four hours in bed from 4am to 8am for five consecutive nights.
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The next year, Zubek followed up by spending nearly fifteen days in the chamber in a perceptual deprivation experiment.
Isolation: a Canadian professor's research into sensory deprivation and to disturbing new methods of interrogation
Yes, with the hood up at 70mph the MX becomes a sort of sensory deprivation experiment.
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In the last section, all participants exposed to partial sleep deprivation at least two weeks after total deprivation experiment.
Sleep deprivation induced anxiety and anaerobic performance
That's until Louise takes part in a sleep deprivation experiment and falls for Charlie (Oliver Milburn).
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VISITING Vegas can sometimes feel like you are taking part in a bizarre sensory deprivation experiment.
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UNSTABLE Eleanor (Lili Taylor), sexy Theo (Catherine Zeta Jones) and wise-cracking Luke (Owen Wilson) think they've all signed up for a well-paid sleep deprivation experiment.
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Even on Ryanair, which treats passengers like participants in a mass sleep deprivation experiment, such is their enthusiasm for prodding people awake to sell them things they expected would be free.
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Repeatedly, sensory deprivation experiments demonstrate that lack of external sensory input ultimately results in subjects sensing nearby presences, seeing beings that are not physically present, feeling something tugging at them, etc.
The "paranormalcy" of sleep
Our sleep deprivation experiments are the equivalent of losing half of a night sleep for a single night," Abel said.
Scientists Find Roots of Memory Impairment Resulting from Sleep Deprivation
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