Introducing the brain: new sleep control protein (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, April 30, 2022, 09:00 (720 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: hypocretin is suspected to play a role in both insomnia, which is a decreased ability to fall asleep at night, and in narcolepsy, which is a decreased ability to stay awake during the day. People suffering from insomnia may have too much hypocretin in the brain, while people suffering from narcolepsy have too little.

As someone who sleeps very little at night and frequently nods off during the day, I shall be delighted to tell my family that it’s because I am hypocretin plus at night and hypocretin minus by day. But I suspect they will tell me I am a cretin all the time.


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