Professor Hiroki R. Ueda , Dr. Kazuhiro Kon and their colleagues at Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, have published a study in Nature Communications on the importance of proper ...
The model of sleep homeostasis regulation proposed in this study. Prolonged wakefulness activates CaMKII in PV-expressing neurons. The activated CaMKII then activates PV-expressing neurons, leading to ...
New research in fruit flies shows that sleep pressure is encoded and enacted by a half-center oscillator of mutually ...
Professor Hiroki R. Ueda (RIKEN Center for Functional Biology, concurrently team lead), Dr. Kazuhiro Kon (at the time of the research, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University) and ...
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Why do we get sleepy? New study reveals brain cells that help drive sleep
Sleep drive neurons in mice may help the brain track wakefulness and trigger deeper recovery sleep after long hours awake.
A naturally occurring molecule in the brain may play an important role in signaling when it is time to sleep, according to new research that identified a previously unrecognized mechanism involved in ...
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