scientists Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir call this “the bandwidthtax.” “Being poor,” they write, “reduces a person’s cognitive capacity morethan going a full night without sleep.” When we are preoccupied bypoverty, “we have less mind to give to the rest of life.” Poverty does not justdeprive people of security and comfort; it siphons off their brainpower, too.
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polysomnography
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for: polysomnograph, oxygen saturation levels, graph - sleep apnea, sleep apnea - monitoring
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description: sleep apnea oxygen saturation process
- oxygen saturation cycles through the night with peaks and troughs
- abdominal movement attempts to draw air in but is obstructed
- when a threshold of oxygen deprivation occurs, the brain wakes up and awakens the person to remove the obstruction
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