Summary: A team of Caltech researchers, led by BRAIN Initiative scientist Viviana Gradinaru, have recently discovered how the brain overrides the natural urge to sleep.
Dopaminergic neurons genetically engineered to express fluorescing genes. The fluorescence is used to measure activity of the neurons, which have been implicated in the sleep/wake cycle. Credit: Courtesy of the Gradinaru laboratory
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06/08/2017
Overriding the Urge to Sleep
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