When you can’t get to sleep at night, you might explain it to someone as your brain not being able to shut off. While your brain never truly shuts off, when you do fall asleep, your brain sends inhibitory neurons that help reduce conscious awareness to get to a point of deep sleep. Normal sleepers often feel like...
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Sleep biology discovery could lead to new insomnia treatments that don’t target the brain
UCLA scientists report the first evidence that a gene outside the brain controls the ability to rebound from sleep deprivation—a surprising discovery that could eventually lead to greatly improved treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders that do not involve getting a drug into the brain. The scientists report that increasing the level of Bmal1—a...
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How to stop your worries keeping you awake at night, six of the best sleep trackers and the best ways to beat the heat: The one-week insomnia cure
All this week, in the Mail’s life-changing series, Professor Jason Ellis, Director of the Northumbria Sleep Research Laboratory, has drawn on his vast experience to help tackle your sleep problems — whether it’s a duvet-hogging partner or chronic insomnia. Today, he reveals the clever tricks you can use to banish late-night anxiety… For many people...