Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1987;66:383-90. 4 According to Freud, Valle AC. Metabolism during desynchronized sleep tends, in fact, to be equal to or even larger than that of waking (131,132). Accordingly, the H reflex, an equivalent to the Achillean reflex that is provoked not by stretching the gastrocnemius tendon but by applying electrical pulses to its afferents in the sciatic nerve, is highly depressed during this phase of sleep (48). From the spinal cord Marini (1997) recorded slow (delta) regularly oscillating waves during desynchronized sleep (81), which may be related to activation of spinal neurons during dreaming. eCollection 2020. John Wiley and Sons, New york 1982. However, considering the high prevalence of dreams during this phase it should be more appropriately named oniric phase of sleep. Phenomenal dream content, however, is not as disorganized as such views imply. & Bertini, M. Unfortunately, despite the opinion of great scientists of the past, most researchers that deal with sleep and dreaming, probably moved by philosophical, religious prejudice and a faulty reasoning, do not accept the idea that non-human animals do dream. Ergebn. Vogel GW, Foulkes D, Trosman H. Ego functions and dreaming during sleep onset. It is most likely an elementary brain activity in homeotherms and thus, if dreaming has a function, it probably plays a similar role in the human brain and in nonhuman brains as well. Physiology and Psychology. Peyrethon J, Dusan-Peyrethon D. tude polygraphique du cycle veille-sommeil chez trois genres de rptiles. Mori D, Shik ML, yagodnitsyn AS. At the age between 7 and 9 years Foulkes' subjects produced much more consistent narrations of the dream content, as should be expected (24). The case against memory consolidation in REM sleep. Webanalyzing dreams. During the nineteenth century several physiologists and neuropsychiatrists tried to understand the mechanisms and meaning of dreams. Maquet P, Pters J, Aerts J, Delfiore G, Degueldre C, Luxen A, Franck G. Nature. 9. Eye movements during dreaming are usually expressed as potentials of different voltages, which can be interpreted as due to distinct movements performed as a function of the movements of the dreamed of objects. Foulkes (1982) considered that dreams are so easily forgotten because the brain in desynchronized sleep is in a "reflective state". Aristotle. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1990;76:388-99. To discuss this issue we will concentrate only on a few hypotheses. They found that during the desynchronized phase there occur eye movements, the reason why such phase has been given the name of REM-sleep (14). 23. Often eye movements are preceded in the electroencephalogram by small sawthoot-waves that superimpose on desynchronized potentials (figure 3). Not only theta waves do occur in the cerebellar cortex during desynchronized sleep but also spindles and delta waves are found in this organ in synchronized sleep, just as in neocortical areas. The dream between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. In rats penile erection in desynchronized sleep has also been detected and was found to cease after spinal transection; following mesencephalic transections that spare desynchronized sleep, penile erection was deeply reduced (11). 33. Contemporary neuroscientific theories often view dreams as epiphenomena, and many of the proposals for their biological function are contradicted by the phenomenology of dreams themselves. 62. It is likely that even strong stimuli may be ineffective in producing an arousal during sleep if they are trivial, whereas light stimulation containing relevant information may be highly efficient. Madsen PC, Holm S, Vorstup S, Friberg L, Lassen NA, Wildschiotz LF. 41. In both instances sleep evolved according to the phases of synchronized and then of desynchronized sleep, during which eye movements always occurred. From a very weak inhibition in early infancy, it goes up rapidly up to 15 years of age, evolving asymptotically from this period on. Neuroscience 1997;81:893-926. WebPhysiological function Theory regular brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways. Timo-Iaria C, Negro N, Schmidek WR, Rocha TL, Hoshino K. Phases and states of sleep in the rat. Recordings of the electrical activity of the brain, which we will refer to as electro-oscillograms, reveal specific patterns that express the phases of sleep in several central regions of the brain, including the phase during which most oniric activity takes place, the desynchronized or paradoxical sleep. Kuboyama T, Hori A, Sato T, Mikami T, yamaki T, Ueda S. Changes in cerebral blood flow velocity in healthy young men during overnight sleep and while awake.Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1997;102:125-31. Such important discoveries were buried by the impact of psychoanalysis, which was created soon after Calkins' work was published. J Cerebr Blood Flow Metab 1991;11:502-7. Such high values of r may mean that theta waves arrive in such areas almost synchronously, coming from some other sites in the central nervous system. What is the Silent functional magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates focal activation in rapid eye movement sleep. WebDream theories developed by Freud suggest that dreams are psychological, revealing hidden urges, for example. 2021 Aug 30;24(2):543. doi: 10.4081/ripppo.2021.543. Reticulospinal and reticulobulbar tracts are involved in conveying to the motoneurons the impulses that cause oniric movements. WebThe leading theory of dreaming in the early decades of this research was the psychoanalytic, which views dreams as highly meaningful reflections of unconscious mental functioning. & Ajmone-Marsan, C. Considering dreams as hallucinations, Hernndez-Pen (1966) theorized that they are possible because the system responsible for wakefulness is inactivated during sleep, releasing memory tracings which are brought to consciousness. The leading theory of dreaming in the early decades of this research was the psychoanalytic, which views dreams as highly meaningful reflections of unconscious mental functioning. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new theories of dreaming were proposed. J Neurophysiol 1964;27:152-71. Depression of electrically induced reflexes (H- reflexes) in man during low voltage EEG sleep. 54. Control of ventilation during sleep. Another change of the electro-oscillograms we disclosed in rats by carefully analyzing their time-course while a dream is on (as well as during attentive wakefulness) is the presence of short periods of desynchronization that interrupt or superimpose on theta waves. San Diego, 1973. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new A powerful defensive behavior, the withdrawal "reflex" (or retraction behavior, as we prefer to call it), is also completely inhibited during this phase of sleep. Dement WC. Physiol Behav 1970;5:402-7. The form and content of dreams is not random but organized and selective: during dreaming, the brain constructs a complex model of the world in which certain types of elements, when compared to waking life, are Dreams during REM sleep tend to be longer, more vivid, more story-like, and more bizarre than those during NREM sleep. Kluger J. 96. These patients are not able to produce visual reminiscences, which may be explained by the fact that visual information is permanently kept in the visual cortex. Raven Press, New york 1981:405-429. Pompeiano O. Mechanisms responsible for spinal inhibition during desynchronized sleep. Shiromani PJ, Lai yy, Siegel JM. Considering that desynchronization is predominant all over the cortex in humans and in the frontal cortex of both cats and rats, we consider it to be a phylogenetically more recent functional acquisition. Electroencerph Clin Neurophysiol 1964;17:617-29. Problems with Physiological function Theory This does 56. It is not known if such a mechanism does exist in humans; if it exists, what is highly possible, we can reason that it is the activity of the chemoreceptor system that senses pO2 that keeps us alive during desynchronized sleep. In humans, both reflex activities are also deeply inhibited during desynchronized sleep. Brooks DC, Bizzi E. Brain stem electrical activity during deep sleep. To what degree, and in what way, implications can be drawn from these findings for the psychology of dreaming is controversial. Neurology 1999;53:2193-5. Experimental study. Brain Res Bull 1992;28:479-84. Elsevier Publishing Company Amsterdam, 1962. During wakefulness such periods in rats are concomitant with short but complete immobilization, which is well known to occur when a high degree of attention is being directed to some external object. This author "thus proposes a psychoanalytical model of dreaming, in which dreams constitute a way of representing the individual's inner world with internal objects related with one another and with the self" (135). Stimulus response theory of dream: The stimulus response theory which existed prior to Freud is based upon the associationistic stimulus response view. This theory stresses the relationship between brain changes during sleep and changes in perceptual efficiency. Some disturbing stimuli force activity into one portion of the cerebral cortex. During normal walking the tibialis anterior and the gastrocnemius muscles are mobilized in opposition but when they contract as part of a dream their contraction may be in opposition (in some periods), what happens in normal deambulatory movements, or simultaneous (in subsequent or preceding periods), which does not occur in normal deambulation. eCollection 2017. Braz J Med Biol Res 1990;23:617-20. Valle AC, Timo-Iaria C, Sameshima K, yamashita R. Theta waves and behavioral manifestations of alertness and dreaming activity in the rat. While Freud makes many intuitive Roffwarg et al. WebIn a nutshell, the theory states that the biological function of dreaming is to stimulate threatening events in order to rehearse the perception of threats and how to go about Therefore, it seems that there are two major descending pathways from the rostral pons to the medulla that mediate muscle atonia during desynchronized sleep, one involved in the tonic and the other in the phasic muscle inhibition. Therefore, any neural event, be it running or just thinking, or dreaming, requires a large amount of oxygen, which is carried to the nervous system by the blood through powerful hemodynamic adjustments, such as increase in blood pressure, heart rate and central blood flow (21,25,26). Their data do not depart from modern studies of the same kind. Physiol Behav 1972;8:363-71. The oscillation of the sleep depth as cycles, as is well known presently, is quite clear in this figure. Sleep Res 1973;4:65. We propose that the function of dream sleep (more properly rapid-eye movement or REM sleep) is to remove certain undesirable modes of interaction in The reinterpretation of dreams: an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. 14. government site. Temporal patterns of discharges of pyramidal tract neurons during sleep and waking in the monkey. Predicting Intention to Participate in Community Physical Activities for Adults with Physical Disabilities. With developments in understanding of the neurophysiology of REM sleep, new theories of dreaming were proposed. C R S Soc Biol (Paris) 1964;158:99-103. In non-human animals the report regarding dreams is obviously impossible but, fortunately, a dream can be detected in both humans and other species by analyzing its motor, vegetative and electrophysiological manifestations, as will be described below. Behav Brain Res 1995;69:203-6. Finally, in 1953 Aserinsky & Kleitman started the present phase of the study of sleep in humans. While humans dream around 100 minutes every night, cats exhibit signs of dreaming during nearly 200 minutes per day. Moruzzi G. Action inhibitrice du palocervelet sur les reflexes circulatoires et respiratoires d'origine sino-carotidinne. In cats, Thomas & Benoit (18) have found oniric activity during synchronized sleep, similar to what we described in rats as pre-paradoxical sleep (19,20) as intermediate phase. Brain warning function for REM-sleep. Roldan E, Weiss TT. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Xenophanes, nearly 2,400 years ago, were opposed to the prevailing view of the phantastikon, that is, mystic apparitions, and to the premonitory character of dreams as their main characteristics. Exptl Neurol 1963;8:93-111. Rerum Natura, I et II. Buchsbaum MS, Gillin JC, Wu J, Hazlett E, Sicotte N, Dupont RM, Bunney WE. Psychosomat Med 1975;37:147-59. Winson (1990) believes that dreams "reflect an individual strategy for survival. 136. With the development of scientific technology, many theories of dreaming have been established. WebExplanation of Physiological function theory This may be true, but it does not explain why we experience meaningful dreams Critical considerations of Physiological function A nerve growth factor-induced gene encodes a possible trancriptional regulatory factor. Perachio AA. Sleeping and Waking. Braz J Med Biol Res 1995;28:385-96. 38. 99. There are many hypotheses to account for the existence of dreams but it is still a matter of debate why and what for we dream. Figure 6 shows an increase in heart rate from 150 bpm to 180 bpm (the latter is the normal heart rate during resting wakefulness in this species), coinciding with the peak of eye movements. Sakai K, Sastre JP, Salvert D, Touret M, Toyama M, Jouvet M. Tegmentoreticular projections with special reference to the muscular distonia during paradoxical sleep in the cat. J Abnorm Psychol 1982;91:433-6. Absence of ponto-geniculo-occipital (PGO) spikes in rats. The lag between tachycardia and eye movements may be related to all the neural processes that are involved in the phases preceding adn succeeding the oniric behavior, including the very identification of the dream content. Magoun HW, Rhines R. An inhibitory mechanism in the bulbar reticular formation. Jouvet (12,119), one of the most important researchers on sleep, suggests that dreaming is "a guardian and programmer of the hereditary part of our personality" and as such it plays a role in our general behavior. The other is that dreams are caused by forebrain activation by dopamine. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. Desynchronized sleep can be provoked by carbachol infusion in the pontine reticular formation (94). 15. Respiratory frequency decreases during the entire sleep cycle but is phasically activated during dreaming because it is a vegetative function that has to be increased in any behavior, including the oniric ones. As any information consciously identified, a dream triggers a specific behavior, that we call an oniric behavior. 105. Roffwarg HP, Herman J, Lamstein S. The middle ear muscles: predictability of their phasic action in REM sleep from dream recall. Whereas Freud was convinced that dream forgetting was an active function of repression, Hobson, Pace-Schott & Stickgold (2000) attribute the failure to recall a dream to a state-dependent amnesia caused by aminergic demodulation of the sleeping brain (120). 110. Changes in hippocampal gene expression associated with the induction of long-term potentiation. Xerxes, in fact, had discovered an important aspect of dreams but his oracle discarded such an explanation, in favor of the mystic one. J Physiol (Paris) 1984;79:365-74. In rats we found similar potentials in the amygdala as related to olfactory dreams, expressed as rostrum movements (32). Descending projections from the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum to the paramedian reticular nucleus of the caudal medulla in the cat. 71. Nucleus reticularis pontis oralis is thought to contain the generator of theta rhythm (78,79) and is known to send direct efferents to the hippocampus and the cerebellar cortex, where we found theta waves that correlate closely with those in the hippocampus (Valle, Kubo, Iwamoto & Timo-Iaria, in preparation for publication). Analysis of the electro-oscillograms yields extremely relevant information that can be correlated with movements and changes in heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. These interneurons inhibit motoneurons by means of glycinergic synapses (glycine is a powerful inhibitory neurotransmitter), as shown by Soja et al. Baust W. Die Phnomenologie des Schlafes. J Neurophysiol 1946;9:165-71. Neurosci Conscious. 64. 131. Mol Brain Res 1996;38:77-84. When they sleep, fishes keep quiet, with no apparent movements, and then they can be easily fished with a hand.". Miyauchi S, Takino R, Fukuda H, Torii S. Electrophysiological evidence for dreaming. Such a configuration is subsequently compared to memorized patterns and then, and only then, it can be identified by means of the conscious process. 10. The meaning of dreams is therefore still an unsolved problem. Nat Rev Neurosci. The site is secure. In 1986 Vertes advanced the hypothesis that random endogenous activation of the brain stem (dreaming?) 1996 Sep 12;383(6596):163-6. doi: 10.1038/383163a0. Much effort was devoted to searching for parallels between physiological aspects of REM sleep and characteristics of associated dreams, with modest results. Matsuyama K, Kobaysahi y, Takakusaki M, Mosi S, Kimuta H. Termination mode and branching patterns of reticuloreticular and reticulospinal fibers of the nucleus reticularis pontis oralis in the cat: an anterograde PHA-L tracing study. Psychoanalysis considers dreams as an important window to the unconscious world, what makes dream interpretation a crucial factor in psychonalytic diagnosis and treatment. Gassel MM, Marchiafava PL, Pompeiano O. In: M. C. Hepp-Reymond & G. Marini (eds.) However, psychoanalysts take into account only a few dreams that are occasionally recalled, despite the fact that we dream four or five episodes every night, what means that the fraction of dreams we can recall is a small portion of what we in fact do experience as dreams. Jouvet M. The role of monoamines and acetylcholine-containing neurons in the regulation of the sleep-waking cycle. Further developments in neurobiological research, including lesion and brain imaging studies, have established a clearer view of the functional neuroanatomy of REM sleep and dreaming. Moruzzi's coined the name desynchronized sleep, which we prefer, because in humans desynchronization is the main electrophysiological marker of this phase. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Desynchronization is the rule, during this phase, in all cortical electro-oscillograms in humans and other primates. 63. Neurosc Biobehav Rev 1992;16:372-97. Arch Psychiat Nervenkrankh 1938;109:1-17. Ergebn. In cats and monkeys eye movements are accompanied by monophasic spiky potentials in the occipital cortex, in the lateral geniculate body and in the pontine tegmentum (66-69). Kohyama T, Hori A, Sato T, Nikami T, yamaki T, Veda S. Changes in cerebral blood flow velocity in healthy young men during overnight sleep and while awake. Brain Res 1979;176:233-54. Carcione A, Santonastaso M, Sferruzza F, Riccardi I. Res Psychother. Careers. Mori S, Matysuyama K, Kohyama J, Kobayashi y, Takakusaki K. Neuronal constituents of postural and locomotor control systems and their interactions in cats. It is interesting that the representation of animals in dreams of infants is quite conspicuous. 59. Jouvet M. Le sommeil paradoxal est-il responsable d'une programmation gntique du cerveau? They also argue that even "expensive and cumbersome evoked potential and computer averaging approaches have not helped us to analyze and compare desynchronized sleep physiology with that of waking in an effective way". Gadea-Ciria M. Plasticity of ponto-geniculo-occipital waves during paradoxical sleep after frontal lobe lesions in the cat. These findings do not necessarily mean that such areas are involved in generating dreaming. Brainstem control of the events of REM sleep. Baldissera F, Cesa-Bianchi MG, Mancia M. Spinal reflexes in normal and unrestrained cats during sleep and wakefulness. (57). Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1997;102:125-31. Electroencephal Clin Neurophysiol 1966;21:562-77. By lesioning the alphacoeruleus nuclei such an inhibitory effect is prevented and during oniric activity the movements generated by the dream itself can be expressed, as was clearly demonstrated in Jouvet's Laboratory (50,51) in cats; the animal suddenly gets up, walks, miews and strikes with the paws, as if the animal were awake. 120. Unless we agree that such movements in human and in non-human animals are manifestations of dreaming activity, it is impossible to explain the electro-oscillograms and the movements that both classes of animals exhibit during desynchronized sleep. Thus, any study of dreaming also lends itself to psychological scrutiny and clinical application. 65. The heart rate and breathing quickens, and blood pressure rises. 31. 124. Proposed by Harvard psychiatrists J. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, the theory posits that dreams are your brains attempts to make sense of random patterns of firing neurons while you slumber. The authors concluded that the correlation they found was probably involved in memory consolidation but such coincidence may indicate that during dreaming memorized information is being revoked to integrate a given dreaming pattern. 44. Guazzi M, Baccelli G, Zanchetti A. Carotid body chemoreceptors: physiological role in buffering fall in blood pressure during sleep. Heiss W-D, Pawlik G, Herholz K, Wagner R, Weinhard K. Regional cerebral glucose metabolism in man during wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming. If the animal is kept alive by forced feeding and is kept warm, in six days frontal desynchronization and theta waves in the other cortical areas reappear and then not only wakefulness is fully recovered but also desynchronized sleep, including oniric activity. Arch Gen Psychiat 1966;14:238-48. Klein M, Michel F, Jouvet M. tude polygraphique du sommeil chez les oiseaux. The first oscillation lasts around two hours, when sleep attains its deepest level; the ensuing cycles last less and their depth tends to decrease until arousal finally occurs, a sequence that recent research has fully confirmed. Decety J, Jeannerod M, Durozard DR, Baveal J. Ann Rev Psychol 1990;41:557-884. In fact, it does frequently occur when movements are expressed as high frequency potentials. Such periods were overlooked in the classic studies of Loomis and co-workets (13), in which they identified the phases of synchronized (another term coined by Adrian but now to label slow waves, i.e., potentials with a low frequency and a high voltage) sleep. McCarley RW, Nelson JP, Hobson JA. Science 1987;238:797-9. However, during desynchronized sleep it was drastically reduced, being entirely inhibited for most of the time. Since evoking visual reminiscences during wakefulness and the building up of dreams with visual information are dependent on the visual cortex, both facts can be correlated. During the past two decades several authors also did quantify the kinds of dreams. Hernndez-Pen R. A neurophysiologic model of dreams and hallucinations. 25. Nature 1989;340:474-6. Our hypothesis is that the cerebellum is involved in overall corrections of the components of all kinds of behavior, including sleep. On the functional role of consciousness. If this hypothesis is correct, it is no surprise that the phases of wakefulness and sleep are expressed in the cerebellar cortex by means of electrophysiological potentials. Pontine cholinergic neurons show fos-like immunoreactivity associated with cholinergically induced REM sleep. Nature 1996;383:163-6. Wehr TA. Confrontations Psychiatriques 1986;27:153-81. Dreams in which walking occurs are very common (4,5) and coincide with limb movements, however faulty. Ribeiro S, Goyal V, Mello CV, Pavlides C. Brain gene expression during REM sleep depends on prior waking experience. Advances in Sleep Research, vol. Interestingly enough, if body temperature in cats subjected to pontomesencephalic transection is lowered, the amount of desynchronized sleep increases. Psychoanalysis also considers dreams as the expression of repressed wishes; this is undoubtly true as to only a few dreams, whereas several studies reveal, instead, that most dreams are closely related to the events of the previous day, as Aristotle had already demonstrated. J Neurophysiol 1938;1:413-30. As mentioned above, Plato, preceding by twenty four centuries one of the dogmas of psychoanalysis, believed that "forbidden" dreams, such as incestuous or criminal dreams, were only a way of doing incestual sex or killing someone without punishment. Exp Brain Res 1989;74:11-23. Frequency clearly increases and becomes regular, as compared with the trend before oniric activity. 42. 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In nocturnal macrosmatic animals, olfaction is the predominant sensory channel and their vibrissae are usually very long, to detect the presence of objects at relatively large distances. In cats, during movements related to dreams such hyperpolarization is reinforced by presynaptic inhibition of afferents to motoneurons. Miyauchi et al. A theory that has many followers is the one that connects dreams, in particular, desynchronized sleep in general, with memory consolidation. 2009 Nov;10(11):803-13. doi: 10.1038/nrn2716. Brain Develop (Tokyo) 1992;14:109-20. (36,37) have recorded contraction of the tympanic muscles (stapedius and tensor tympani) during human sleep. Braun et al. Candia O, Favale E, Guissani A, Rossi G. Blood pressure during natural sleep and during sleep induced by electrical stimulation of the brain stem reticular formation. Theories on the function of REM sleep and dreaming, with which it has a contingent relationship, remain diverse. Vertes & Eastman (2000), for instance, believe that the stressful conditions in experiments intended to demonstrate a role of desynchronized sleep and dreaming in consolidation of memory spoil the results (88). 19. The gamma-alpha loop has been shown to play no role in producing the movements that characterize dreaming. Above the transection, synchronized and desynchronized sleep keep occurring but without eye movements. Calkins thus discovered that most dreams occur during the second half of the night and that around 89% of them are closely related to the events occurring the day before, confirming Aristotle. 39. 5. However, we still do not know why most motor units are inactivated while a few ones are mobilized, causing real but incoherent and non-efficient movements. Doneshka P, Kehaiyov A. 92. 52. Much experimental work is needed before a convincing function can be ascribed to the fascinating physiological phenomenon that is dreaming. His personal oracle, however, disagreed and convinced him that his dreams were warnings from the gods. WebWhen a person entered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, it activates circuits within the brain stem. In ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle discussed about the meaning of dreams, concluding that the prevailing mistic and mythic concepts about them were incorrect. The motoneuron inhibition, responsible for the sleep atonia and abolition of movements, is not complete in infancy (figure 5). Moruzzi G. Active processes in the brain stem during sleep. Behav Brain Sci 2000;23:1008-9. Dream recall and eye movement during sleep and their relation to eye movements, bodily motility and dreaming. Later research argues that dreams are physiological, beginning with random electrical impulses deep within the brain stem. J Neurosci 1995;15:3500-8. Some more recent theories of dreaming emphasize an adaptive function related to emotion and a role in learning and memory consolidation. 85. physiological function. When only one side of the reticular formation is also destroyed, the same pattern of recovery does occur; if the other side of the reticular formation is also destroyed after two or three weeks, recovery of wakefulness and desynchronized sleep is even faster than when both sides are lesioned at the same time. 49. 106. 111. It has been proposed (120,123,124) that presleep mentation is infrequently incorporated in top dreams and that "naturalistic" day time events rarely enter dream content, but several authors correlated dream content to the previous day events, starting with Aristotle 2,400 years ago and with Calkins in 1893. Baust's data regarding the cat are also evident (38). Hobson JA. Hodes R, Dement WC. 135. 114. 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