Ritchie Brown
@sleepwakeeeg.bsky.social
Neuoscientist studying the brain circuitry controlling sleep, wakefulness and cortical rhythms
Beautiful thread, thank you, I couldn’t agree more
February 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Beautiful thread, thank you, I couldn’t agree more
Reposted by Ritchie Brown
Targeting transcription factors that label novel cell types can be a great way to discover new mechanisms of behavioral regulation. This study, where we identified Lhx6-positive zona incerta cells as critical regulators of sleep pressure, is a good example./3
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Lhx6-positive GABA-releasing neurons of the zona incerta promote sleep - Nature
GABAergic Lhx6+ neurons in the ventral zona incerta promote both rapid eye movement and non-rapid eye movement sleep and inhibit the activity of wake-promoting GABAergic and Hcrt+ neurons of the later...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Targeting transcription factors that label novel cell types can be a great way to discover new mechanisms of behavioral regulation. This study, where we identified Lhx6-positive zona incerta cells as critical regulators of sleep pressure, is a good example./3
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
www.nature.com/articles/nat...