Lead authors Drs. Diogo Pimental and Jeff Donlea describe their research into what causes the sleep homeostat -- a 'switch' in the brain -- to flip and wake us up, and the discovery of the 'Sandman' ...

Researchers have discovered what causes the sleep homeostat -- a switch in our brains -- to flip and wake us up. The discovery brings us closer to understanding the mystery of sleep. Oxford University ...

Oxford University researchers have discovered what causes a switch to flip in our brains and wake us up. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, brings us closer to understanding the mystery ...

After making many thousands of measurements in experiments spanning more than 10 years, scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that two molecular partners interact at synapses to maintain ...