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Nature Medicine  9, 170 - 171 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0203-170

Orchestrating sleep-wake functions in the brain

Göran Hajak & Peter Geisler

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University of Regensburg Regensburg, Germany

Correspondence should be addressed to Göran Hajak goeran.hajak@bkr-regensburg.de
Staying awake and alert requires hypothalamic neurons that secrete the neurotransmitter hypocretin, also called orexin. A new study shows that feedback loops of hypocretin and glutamate neurons orchestrate the neuronal output that regulates arousal.

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