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Nature Medicine 13, 126 - 128 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0207-126

Orexins: looking forward to sleep, back at addiction

Thomas E Scammell1 & Clifford B Saper1

  1. The authors are in the Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. e-mail: tscammel@bidmc.harvard.edu


An orally available drug enters the brain and interferes with signaling of orexin neuropeptides—providing a potential treatment for sleep disorders and possibly addiction (pages 150–155).

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