The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift. Health hazards of not #sleeping now treated like smoking in the ’50s
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029450.700-the-night-why-they-call-it-the-graveyard-shift.html
Posts Tagged ‘sleep’
The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift – health – 02 December 2013 – New Scientist
December 8, 2013Orexin Receptor Antagonists Differ from Standard Sleep Drugs by Promoting Sleep at Doses That Do Not Disrupt Cognition
November 27, 2013Interesting discussion of a new sleep medication related to orexin, which is a protein that when removed is associated with narcolepsy.
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/179/179ra44
Genome Res. 2001 Apr;11(4):531-9.
Identification and functional analysis of mutations in the hypocretin (orexin) genes of narcoleptic canines.
Hungs M, Fan J, Lin L, Lin X, Maki RA, Mignot E.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11282968
#Orexin Receptor Antagonists Differ from Standard #Sleep Drugs… Interesting discussion of a new insomnia medication
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/179/179ra44
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