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Abnormal sleep/wake dynamics in orexin knockout mice.
Sleep - 1 Mar 2010
Diniz Behn Cecilia G, Klerman Elizabeth B, Mochizuki Takatoshi, Lin Shih-Chieh, Scammell Thomas E
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STUDY OBJECTIVES: Narcolepsy with cataplexy is caused by a loss of orexin (hypocretin) signaling, but the physiologic mechanisms that result in poor maintenance of wakefulness and fragmented sleep remain unknown. Conventional scoring of sleep cannot reveal much about the process of transitioning between states or the variations within states. We developed an EEG spectral analysis technique to determine whether...
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