How was your sleep research during the three-day Good Sleep Day event?

Our sleep tends to be shorter and shallower during the full moon.
Just as this commonly accepted view may lead us to expect, we found that on the night of the full moon during this Good Sleep Day event, all researchers’ worldwide average sleep duration was 1 min. and 32 sec. shorter than average.

Let’s do our best to sleep better during the next full moon!
The next Good Sleep Day event will be from Nov. 4 to Nov. 6.

This Month’s Sleep Tip

Here’s this month’s sleep tip!
We hope all you researchers find this useful for your daily sleep.

Orexin Deficiency and Narcolepsy Linked

Sleep disorder is the collective name for ailments related to sleep, such as insomnia and hypersomnia.

Sleep debt is when we go a number of days without getting enough sleep, and sleep debt can also be broadly considered a sleep disorder.

A neurotransmitter in the brain called orexin—which is related to narcolepsy, a form of hypersomnia—was discovered by Dr. Yanagisawa more than twenty years ago.

Narcolepsy is a condition that causes sleepiness that is difficult to resist and is caused by orexin deficiency.

As of now, no method of increasing the brain’s production of orexin itself has been discovered, but researchers around the world are currently working on the development of a medicine that could serve the same function as orexin.

Reference material

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