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Sleep circuitry: linking homeostasis, sedation and stress
There are multiple theories as to why we sleep. I will present our lab’s work on what circuitries sense the inexorable drive to sleep when we are sleep-deprived (sleep homeostasis). We are interested in if sedative drugs promote these restorative sleep pathways. I will also talk about powerful new sleep-promoting circuitry we have discovered in the basal ganglia and midbrain, which overlaps with circuitry that responds to stress.
Date:
19 May 2021, 16:30
Venue:
Online via Zoom. Sign up at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Speaker:
Professor William Wisden MA PhD FRSB FMedSci (Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
Organiser:
Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Host:
Tara Diviney (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Subscribers to the Cortex Club mailing list https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Editor:
Tara Diviney
