Hypocretin: A New Sleep Molecule Discovered

Hypocretin: A New Sleep Molecule Discovered

Birgitte Kornum, a brain scientist from the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) , was surprised when she attended one of the world’s largest sleep conferences to see many Pharmaceutical businesses were focused on hypocretin. The protein found in brain cells has recently received a lot of interest in sleep research. This…

You can outsmart the upcoming time change

The upcoming change to daylight saving time (DST) will make people feel like they’ve lost an hour of sleep. At 2am this coming Sunday morning, March 12, we are expected to “spring” our clocks one hour “forward.” This synchs our shared schedules to an artificial time reset. The practice originally evolved to build more sunlight into…