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No top-down control for sleep, wakefulness

SPOKANE – Feeling sleepy? That’s because parts of your brain actually are asleep, according to a new theoretical paper by WSU sleep scientists. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the researchers say, there’s no control center in your brain that dictates when it‘s time for you to drift off to dreamland. Instead, sleep creeps up on you […]