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Basel team: wake-activated brainstem neurons regulate sleep drive; inhibiting them cuts sleep by ~70% (neuroscience)
Alex Schier’s group at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum and collaborators identify in Nature key circuits that encode sleep debt in mice. Comparing whole-br…
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Sleep-Drive Circuits: Median Raphe GABA/5-HT Neurons Activate During Wake; Inhibition Can Chronically Cut Sleep ~70% (Sleep)
Nature mouse whole-brain mapping and circuit manipulation compared sleep deprivation, recovery sleep, and circadian cycles, identifying the anterior medial preo…
Wake-Activated Neurons: Median Raphe GABA/Serotonin Cells Track Wake Duration and Drive Sleep Pressure (Sleep)
A mouse whole-brain mapping study in Nature (2026) compared normal sleep–wake cycles, sleep deprivation, and recovery sleep, identifying the anterior medial pre…
Nature: wake-activated neuronal populations that regulate sleep drive (neuroscience)
Published Aug. 19 in Nature, a mouse study used whole-brain activity mapping, targeted manipulations, and electrophysiology to identify deprivation-sensitive re…