{"id":216487,"date":"2025-06-24T02:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-study-locates-neuron-clusters-that-help-the-brain-repay-sleep-debt"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:21:23","slug":"new-study-locates-neuron-clusters-that-help-the-brain-repay-sleep-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-study-locates-neuron-clusters-that-help-the-brain-repay-sleep-debt","title":{"rendered":"New study locates neuron clusters that help the brain repay sleep debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-locates-neuron-clusters-that-help-the-brain-repay-sleep-debt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sleeping deeply into the afternoon after an all-nighter or a late night out is one way the body repays its sleep debt. The sleep-wake cycle is regulated by a homeostatic process in which the body continuously adjusts its physiological systems to maintain a balanced state of rest and alertness.<\/p>\n<p>A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adm8203\" target=\"_blank\">identified a specific group of neurons<\/a> called RE<sup>Vglut2<\/sup> located in the center of the brain, in the thalamus, that may help us uncover how lost sleep is recovered in animals.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that in mice, this circuit, consisting of excitatory neurons, is triggered during <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sleep+deprivation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sleep deprivation<\/a> and induces drowsy behavior, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/deep+sleep\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep sleep<\/a> that can last for hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeping deeply into the afternoon after an all-nighter or a late night out is one way the body repays its sleep debt. The sleep-wake cycle is regulated by a homeostatic process in which the body continuously adjusts its physiological systems to maintain a balanced state of rest and alertness. A new study identified a specific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}