deprivation
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Medical experts have long questioned the diagnostic value of Amen’s scans, noting that reduced frontal-lobe activity can be influenced by fatigue, stress, sleep deprivation or even the scanning method itself.
From Salon
There are areas of deprivation across Wales and it is not the case that everyone in a highly deprived neighbourhood will be struggling, nor will all those in a less deprived area be well off.
From BBC
The things we keep and use in the kitchen, especially, can conjure powerful memories: aromatic reminders of nurturing care and loving connection as well as less savory bites of deprivation, regret, disappointment and loss.
Inside its prisons and security facilities, the regime systematically executed thousands while untold others died as a result of beatings and other methods of torture along with deprivation of food, water, and medical care.
"Essentially the minds of patients were manipulated using verbal cues," she says, adding he also looked at the effects of sleep drugs, forced sensory deprivation, and induced coma.
From BBC
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