Is There Balance in the Department?

Sleep has a loud and potent story to tell the field of psychiatry. I'm always interested in questions, even much more so than i am answers. There are certainly new technologies that are starting to emerge within the animal research field. optogenetics is a huge area where you can acty genetically engineer cells to be light sensitive. We're starting to be able to control on and off different sleep circuits. And as a consequence, amplify or impair the benefits that sleep gives us.

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