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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…