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9 Breaks tagged with sleep
When you feel sleepy, you may prefer going to bed over chatting with friends. Indeed, our study shows that sleepiness is linked to social activity as well as...
Monitoring brain electrical activities helps us discern brain states. But understanding how we sleep is not easy. While deep dreamless sleep brings easily...
Light exposure and social cues are essential to set our internal clock's time and be healthy. The COVID-19 lockdown forced us to be at home, affecting the main...
Sleep loss perturbs the molecular circadian clock inside our cells. This effect persists long after the organism has recovered from sleep loss at the...
Microglia, the immune cells of the brain, helps the brain modify its circuits in response to new experiences. In a recent study, we found that microglia...
Increased regularity of sleep-wake patterns and more sleep: The ‘lockdown’-induced relaxation of social schedules had positive effects on people’s sleep....
Poor-quality sleep changes a pattern of brain activity and increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Sufficient sleeping may serve as a cheap and powerful...
All animals sleep, and the loss of sleep result in significant deficits to brain performance. Prolonging sleep deprivation could be fatal; however, why do we...
We have taken a systems genetics look at sleep to peel back the many layers regulating sleep. Using this approach, we could connect specific DNA variations to...
