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Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) and the University of California Santa Cruz ( UCSC ) made these findings by accident, noticing how brain waves in one tiny area of the brain shut down suddenly for just milliseconds when we're awake.
And in this same region, those brain waves jolt suddenly, for the same amount of time, when we are asleep.
These findings could offer insights into neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases linked to sleep dysregulation.
The findings may offer new insights into conditions that are associated with dysregulated sleep, providing a new target for treatment of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. “This gives us potentially a very, very sharp scalpel with which to cut into these questions of diseases and disorders,” Hengen said. “The more we understand fundamentally about what sleep and wake are, the more we can address pertinent clinical and disease related problems.” The study was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience . Source: University of Santa Cruz .
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