Tsukuba, Japan—The nucleus accumbens plays a pivotal role in motivational behavior and sleep regulation, modulated by adenosine A 2A receptors (A 2A R). Hence, selective A 2A R regulation within this ...

You've just finished eating lunch and you're back at your desk, ready to dive into the rest of the day's work. Yet by 3 p.m., ...

The regulation and function of sleep is one of the biggest black boxes of today's brain science. A new paper published online on August 2 in the journal "Brain Structure & Function" finds that rapid ...

Making up a sleep debt can seem impossible, but it's not. If you aren't too far behind on your sleep, you may be able to do ...

Sleep debt is as real as your mortgage, and falling behind on payments could take a toll on your health. Experts share the ...

Caffeine, a widely consumed psychoactive substance found in coffee, tea and numerous beverages, exerts its primary effect through non‐selective antagonism of adenosine receptors. By blocking adenosine ...