Direct link between REM sleep loss, desire for sugary and fatty foods discovered
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 22:21
in Health & Medicine
A new method has been used by researchers to produce REM sleep loss in mice along with a chemical-genetic technique to block prefrontal cortex neurons and the behaviors they mediate. As a result, the researchers discovered that inhibiting these neurons reversed the effect of REM sleep loss on sucrose consumption while having no effect on fat consumption.