Traditional risk factors for obesity and the metabolic syndrome, such as excess energy
intake and lack of physical activity, cannot fully explain the high prevalence of these …

Background Managing stress and having good quality sleep are inter-related factors that are
essential for health, and both factors seem to be affected by physical activity. Although there …

Extended wakefulness is associated with reduced performance and the build-up of sleep
pressure. In the cortex, this manifests as changes in network activity. These changes show …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a world pandemic due to COVID-19. In
response, most affected countries have enacted measures involving compulsory …

Sleep deprivation (SD) is increasingly common in modern society, which can lead to the
dysregulation of inflammatory responses and cognitive impairment, but the mechanisms …

In mice, social defeat stress (SDS), an ethological model for psychosocial stress, induces
sleep. Such sleep could enable resilience, but how stress promotes sleep is unclear. Activity …

Sleep is a vital and evolutionarily conserved process, critical to daily functioning and
homeostatic balance. Losing sleep is inherently stressful and leads to numerous detrimental …

Abstract Aim Modified Suanzaoren Decoction (MSZRD) is obtained by improving
Suanzaoren Decoction (SZRT), a traditional Chinese herbal prescription that has been used …

Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) refers to the aggregate of adipose tissue surrounding
the vasculature, exhibiting the phenotypes of white, beige and brown adipocytes. PVAT has …

Both depression and sleep disturbance have been linked to inflammation. However, the role
that inflammation plays in the relationship between sleep disturbance and depression …