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    "title": "TAP reading note: Clarifying the roles of homeostasis and allostasis in physiological regulation",
    "description": "Ramsay and Woods examine how homeostasis and allostasis are used, arguing that understanding interacting regulatory mechanisms matters more than treating any change in a regulated value as a new kind of regulation.",
    "rights": "© The Allostasis Project. All rights reserved. Reproduction or adaptation requires separate permission, subject to applicable legal exceptions.",
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    "original": {
      "id": "ramsay-2014",
      "title": "Clarifying the roles of homeostasis and allostasis in physiological regulation",
      "authors": "Ramsay DS · Woods SC",
      "journal": "Psychological review",
      "year": "2014",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035942",
      "doi": "10.1037/a0035942",
      "pmid": "24730599"
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      {
        "id": "ramsay-2014",
        "title": "Clarifying the roles of homeostasis and allostasis in physiological regulation",
        "authors": "Ramsay DS · Woods SC",
        "journal": "Psychological review",
        "year": "2014",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035942",
        "doi": "10.1037/a0035942",
        "pmid": "24730599"
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    "sections": [
      {
        "id": "finding",
        "title": "What the study found",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Ramsay and Woods examine how homeostasis and allostasis are used, arguing that understanding interacting regulatory mechanisms matters more than treating any change in a regulated value as a new kind of regulation."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "limits",
        "title": "Scope & limitations",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Conceptual analysis of physiological regulation; no single participant sample.",
          "A clarification of competing explanations, not an intervention trial. It does not establish a diagnostic test or show that modern homeostasis excludes anticipation and learning."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "sample",
        "title": "Population & sample",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Conceptual analysis of physiological regulation; no single participant sample."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "exposure",
        "title": "Exposure or intervention",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Definitions of homeostasis and allostasis and the regulatory loops behind physiological responses."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "outcomes",
        "title": "Outcomes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Conceptual distinctions and implications for investigating regulation and dysregulation."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Theoretical synthesis published in 2014; no participant follow-up."
        ]
      },
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        "id": "funding",
        "title": "Research funding",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
        ]
      },
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        "id": "conflicts",
        "title": "Research conflicts of interest",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
        ]
      },
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        "id": "basis",
        "title": "Reading scope",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal."
        ]
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