To survive in complex and unpredictable environments, humans and other animals need to learn to predict the consequences of ...

This important study assessed the effects of food intake on sharp wave-ripples in the hippocampus of mice during subsequent sleep. Solid evidence supports the conclusion that sharp wave-ripples are ...

These project from the arcuate nucleus to other key hypothalamic nuclei, such as the paraventricular, dorsomedial, ventromedial and lateral hypothalamic nuclei. There are also projections to and ...

Trouble sleeping is common in other neurodegenerative diseases, but past research has only suggested that it occurs in ...

Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the University of Cologne in Germany looked at the neural firing rates in the brain's lateral hypothalamus, a region that plays a ...

The hypothalamus in the brain contains the temperature monitoring centre for the body. The hypothalamus receives nerve impulses from structures in the skin called thermoreceptors, which give ...

Idorsia has become the first drugmaker in the EU to claim approval for a drug for chronic insomnia in the dual orexin receptor antagonist class, ahead of rival drugs from Merck & Co and Eisai.

Altered sleep and vigilance are among the most frequent symptoms, besides parkinsonism, in movement disorders. As many as 60% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience insomnia, 15-59% ...

Non-neuronal brain cells called tanycytes are illuminated and color-coded according to their depth in the hypothalamus brain of a mouse. They are one of the cell types in the mouse brain that show a ...

This manuscript describes valuable findings on the expression pattern of orexin receptors in the midbrain and how ... In line with an increase of neural activity in the lateral paragigantocellular ...