Sleep: The Very Long Posited (VLPO) Synaptic Pathways of Arousal.
Journal article

Sleep: The Very Long Posited (VLPO) Synaptic Pathways of Arousal.

  • Lüthi A Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (DNF), University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 9, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: anita.luthi@unil.ch.
  • 2019-12-18
Published in:
  • Current biology : CB. - 2019
English Waking up requires excitation of the brain's wake centers. A new study shows that synaptic inhibition of sleep centers also induces wakefulness. This inhibition, driven by lateral hypothalamic GABAergic neurons, may coordinate sleep-wake behavior with stress, motivation and energy balance.
Language
  • English
Open access status
closed
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://sonar.ch/global/documents/727
Statistics

Document views: 17 File downloads: