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Type: Scientific paper / technical report (page extract)
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This document appears to be page 249 of a scientific paper or technical report submitted to the House Oversight Committee (likely as part of the Epstein investigation given the prompt context, possibly related to his funding of scientific research). The text discusses theoretical neuroscience, specifically the application of nonlinear dynamics and statistical controls in brain physiology. It references studies on the effects of ethanol and lithium, and citations include Ehlers (1998), Mandell (1985), and Liebovitch (1990).

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Name Role Context
Ruelle Cited Author
Cited regarding 'house keeping requirements' (1990)
Rapp Cited Author
Cited regarding 'house keeping requirements' (1993; 1994)
Ehlers Cited Author
Lead author of a 1998 study on ethanol influence on the brain
Mandell Cited Author
Cited regarding lithium-induced expansiveness and bipolar disease (1985)
Liebovitch Cited Author
Cited regarding ion channel dynamics (1990)

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House Oversight Committee
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1998
Study of the influence of low doses of ethanol in 32 normal male subjects
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Ehlers et al 32 normal male subjects

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"This theoretical blind alley is reminiscent of the decades lost partialing out causal attributes of nature versus nurture"
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"Statistical caveats have arisen to retard the emergence of potentially important and robust neurophysiologically-relevant phenomena."
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"concluded that the drug 'reduced the evidence for nonlinear dynamical structure' in the brain (Ehlers et al, 1998)"
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