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tag sleep wake cycle neuroscience
Shift Work Early in Life Results in Increased Stroke Severity in Middle Age
Jennifer Zieba, PhD
| Jan 11, 2023
| 3 min read
Researchers found that shifted sleep/wake cycles in young rats result in increased functional deficits and mortality following stroke later in life.
Sleep Rhythms Prompt Long-term Memories
Shelby Bradford, PhD
| Dec 1, 2023
| 2 min read
A bridge between neurons triggers longer, deeper sleep and memory formation in fly larvae.
You Are When You Eat
Iris Kulbatski, PhD
| Nov 20, 2023
| 3 min read
Intermittent fasting regulates biological time and improves disrupted sleep in an Alzheimer’s disease model.
Astrocytes, Not Just Neurons, Play a Role in Sleep
Abby Olena, PhD
| Sep 24, 2020
| 4 min read
In mice, the brain’s main glial cell type exhibits distinctive patterns of activity across the sleep-wake cycle and influences the response to sleep deprivation.
Time, Flies
Anna Azvolinsky
| Nov 1, 2016
| 9 min read
By studying the sleep-wake cycle of fruit flies, Amita Sehgal is revealing how the body’s circadian and sleep rhythms are regulated.
Opinion: The Biological Function of Dreams
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra
| Dec 1, 2020
| 3 min read
The scenarios that run through our sleeping brains may help us explore possible solutions to concerns from our waking lives.
Restless Nights Predict Alzheimer’s?
Dan Cossins
| Oct 18, 2012
| 2 min read
Researchers find that disrupted sleep-wake cycles could reflect or even contribute to the neurodegenerative disease.
Sleep’s Kernel
Sandip Roy and James M. Krueger
| Mar 1, 2016
| 10 min read
Surprisingly small sections of brain, and even neuronal and glial networks in a dish, display many electrical indicators of sleep.
Opinion: Animal Dreaming Should Give Us Ethical Pause
David M. Peña-Guzmán
| Aug 15, 2022
| 4 min read
Research shows that humans aren’t the only animals whose imaginations run wild while they sleep.
Book Excerpt from
When Brains Dream
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra
| Dec 1, 2020
| 8 min read
Ferreting out the biological function of dreaming is a frontier in neuroscience.
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