Out like a light: Researchers id brain’s ‘sleep switch’

Monday, October 8, 2018 - 09:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Two decades ago, Clifford B. Saper, MD/PhD, Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and colleagues discovered a set of nerve cells they thought might be the switch that turns the brain off, allowing it to sleep. In a new study published in Nature Communications today, Saper and colleagues demonstrate in […]

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