Month: June 2023

REM and Locked-In Syndrome: REM (rapid eye movement-dream) sleep is similar to locked-in syndrome. How?  Locked-in syndrome is rare fortunately,  usually caused by a stroke, destroys part of the pons in the brainstem, and a person can’t move but they breathe and vertical eye movements are preserved. They are awake, thinking and imagining. More than…

I was relieved reading in the NYT of an increase in bee swarms in the United Kingdom.  I lived through the age of bee colony collapse disorder. At the time people worried pollinators would be no more. It disturbs me that no single cause was ever found so as to avoid it in the future.…