-The dorsal nucleus of the #vagusnerve, a major source of parasympathetic output to🫀 & 🫁
- The nucleus raphe pallidus & obscurus, which mediates the body’s #tachycardia & #fever responses
- The reticular formation, a network that controls #cardiopulmonary functions, consciousness, #sleepwakecycles

Adult female fruit flies proved less sensitive to disturbances of their circadian system through experimental disruptions of a peptide in their brains (green). Image credit: Eva Scholz-Carlson, Indiana University Bloomington.

Research in flies suggests #circadian systems differ in #males and #females. In PNAS Journal Club: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

#CircadianRhythm #SleepWakeCycles #Drosophila #neurons