#sleeprhythms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sleeprhythms, aggregated by home.social.
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Sleep-wake rhythm: Fish change our understanding of sleep regulation https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-rhythm-fish.html
A vertebrate family without a functional Hypocretin/Orexin arousal system https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)00164-7
"not all #vertebrates regulate their sleep-wake rhythm in the same way... some #fish—unlike humans—do not need #orexin to stay awake. This molecule was thought to be necessary for normal wake and #SleepRhythms in vertebrates. Humans without orexin suffer from #narcolepsy."