GREAT joint SRS/ESRS seminar on hypocretins/orexins function!! Fantastic talks and Q&A session by Drs. McGregor and Burdakov. Can’t wait for the December one!

In-flight entertainment.

Brainstem pathology in human narcolepsy: Neurodegeneration in the locus coeruleus in narcoleptic humans, but not in genetically narcoleptic mice or dogs Our earlier study led to the conclusion that human narcolepsy with cataplexy was caused by the loss of forebrain hypocretin (orexin) neurons in the hypothalamus. We now report that humans having narco...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you, Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social for a fantastic talk! Very interesting and beautiful work.

Nasty cold + time change is no joke when you need a functioning brain the most.

#sleep #circadian #daylightsavings #publichealth

I vote for live streaming! 💪

Just heard from a very good friend and expert neuroanatomist that the preoptic area is not hypothalamus.
Nonsense! Must be the water on the west coast. 😂

Up to 65 #SleepPeeps in our Starter Pack! I'm sure i missed some and i have plenty of space for more. Keep spreading the word and let me know if i missed you!!

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The number of recommendation letters written highly correlates with academic age. Prove me wrong!
If true, I just aged ~10 y this morning.

Great to connect here with old and new friends and colleagues interested in #Sleep!

Thanks, @tonycunningham.bsky.social for facilitating the growth of this multidisciplinary Sleep group.

Forgot that I also visit this place too! New paper: Single #Psilocybin injection produces long-lasting #ChronicPain relief in a rat model.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Just moved here. Please help me connect with other Sleep and Neuroscience researchers. I will follow any legit one!