Availability of artificial light and light-emitting devices have altered human temporal life,
allowing 24-hour healthcare, commerce and production, and expanding social life around …

Hypocretin/orexin neurons are distributed restrictively in the hypothalamus, a brain region
known to orchestrate diverse functions including sleep, reward processing, food intake …

The African turquoise killifish is a powerful vertebrate system to study complex phenotypes
at scale, including aging and age-related disease. Here, we develop a rapid and precise …

The frequencies of eating disorders and obesity have increased worldwide in recent years.
Their pathophysiologies are still unclear, but recent evidence suggests that they might be …

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) controls energy homeostasis including orexigenic actions in
mammalians and non-mammalians. Recently, NPY has attracted attention as a mediator of …

Sleep and wakefulness are basic behavioral states that require coordination between
several brain regions, and they involve multiple neurochemical systems, including …

Sleep is widespread across the animal kingdom. However, most comparative sleep data
exist for terrestrial vertebrates, with much less known about sleep in amphibians, bony …

Abstract The von Economo neurons (VENs) are specialized large bipolar projection neurons
with restricted distribution in the human brain, and they are far more abundant in humans …

The genetic bases for most human sleep disorders and for variation in human sleep quantity
and quality are largely unknown. Using the zebrafish, a diurnal vertebrate, to investigate the …

Locus coeruleus (LC) is a small nucleus located deep in the brainstem that contains the
majority of central noradrenergic neurons, which provide the primary source of …