Star-shaped brain cells impact the length and depth of sleep in mice – News-Medical.net

For something we spend one-third of our lives doing, we still understand remarkably little about how sleep works — for example, why can some people sleep deeply through any disturbance, while others regularly toss and turn for hours each night? And why do we all seem to need a different amount of sleep to feel rested?
For decades, scientists have looked to the behavior of the brain’s neurons to understand the nature of slumber. Now, though, researchers at UC San Francisco have confirmed that a…

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