Study elucidates mechanisms of longer and deeper sleep after an all-nighter

Professor Hiroki R. Ueda , Dr. Kazuhiro Kon and their colleagues at Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, have published a study in Nature Communications on the importance of proper regulation of the activity of parvalbumin (PV)-expressing neurons, the major inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex, in the long, deep sleep (rebound sleep) that occurs after prolonged wakefulness.

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