Different neuronal phenotypes in the lateral hypothalamus and their role in sleep and wakefulness.

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The sleep disorder narcolepsy is now linked with a loss of neurons containing the neuropeptide hypocretin (also known as orexin). The hypocretin neurons are located exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus, a brain region that has been implicated in arousal based on observations made by von Economo during the viral encephalitic epidemic of 1916-1926. There are other neuronal phenotypes located in the lateral...

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