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An exercise ball, known otherwise as a "yoga ball", "gymnastic ball", "fitness ball", or , "Large Ass Support"  is an elastic, puncture resistant device usually used by yoga trainers, people in physical therapy, and sometimes overweight software developers. 58 year old Seattle software developer and video game fan "Gabe Newell" recalls, in this heartwarming story, when he lost something of immense support to him but gained something else altogether. 

Frontiers Lesions causing central sleep apnea localize to one common brain network

Sleep deprivation impairs molecular clearance from the human brain, Brain

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Human cortical–hippocampal dialogue in wake and slow-wave sleep

Human brain solute transport quantified by glymphatic MRI-informed biophysics during sleep and sleep deprivation, Fluids and Barriers of the CNS

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