Bacterial fragments called peptidoglycans may influence daily sleep patterns and also affect the brain health cycle strongly.

Researchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's 'locus coeruleus' in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM and REM ...

You stayed up too late scrolling through your phone, answering emails or watching just one more episode. The next morning, you feel groggy and irritable. That sugary pastry or greasy breakfast ...

The bacterial molecules, believed to stay in the gut, are present in the brain and linked to sleep patterns, discovered Washington State University scientists. The findings challenge brain-centric ...

A new study shows that bacterial cell wall molecules, specifically peptidoglycan, are present in the brain and fluctuate with ...

What causes us to sleep? The answer may lie not only in our brains, but in their complex interplay with the microorganisms ...

Emerging evidence suggests the bacteria living in your gut and mouth influence how you sleep at night. Scientists want to use ...

"People know that growth hormone release is tightly related to sleep, but only through drawing blood and checking growth ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

In a paper published in Disease Models and Mechanisms, Salazar and his colleagues demonstrated that Purkinje cells affected in ataxia also controlled aspects of the sleep cycle in mice. 3 The findings ...

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