Event Category: Neuroimaging

A neuropeptide system that senses and releases sleep pressure

Jason Rihel         In John Keats’s poem, “To Sleep”, he exhorts Sleep to “turn the key deftly in the oiled wards”, allowing him a restful slumber. Although we have known that sleep pressure builds up the longer we stay awake, neither the sleep pressure signals (the “key”) nor where in the brain (the “oiled wards”)…