Prof. of Neurology, Dr. Tom Scammell, and colleagues show that an orexin receptor 2 (#OX2R) agonist improves the maintenance of wakefulness, and highlights some of the neural pathways through which this occurs #HarvardSleepMed
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An orexin agonist promotes wakefulness and inhibits cataplexy through distinct brain regions
Ishikawa et al. show that an orexin receptor 2 (OX2R) agonist improves the maintenance
of wakefulness through OX2R in the tuberomammillary nucleus (TMN) and basal forebrain
(BF) regions and suppresses...