Discover a special brain area that keeps you awake

This finding may help to develop new treatments for patients with sleep disorders, or at least help to better understand what makes them unable to get a good night's sleep.

According to Engadget, the researchers believe that they have discovered that the part of the brain that plays the role of ending sleep is light sleep. The light sleep phase is also known as the flickering sleep phase , sleepless eyes (Non-REM), and will eventually wake you up.

Scientists have discovered the part of the brain that plays a role in ending sleep.

Professor Antoine Adamantidis from the University of Bern and colleagues discovered a neural circuit sandwiched between two regions of the brain, the hypothalamus and thalamus . Scientists have tested this reaction with rats. This brain region stimulation by the technique of Optogenetics (a newly developed technique towards the control of individual neuronal activities), has caused a "rapid awakening" from the sleepless state. , while focusing more on the "long awake" state.

This finding is very interesting, Professor Adamantidis said, because it can lead to new techniques to help people recover from the least conscious state of the plant or dreamy state. Moreover, it can be used to help patients with sleep disorders, or at least help to better understand what makes them unable to get a good night's sleep. Electrotherapy is not a new idea, but it used to be that people still do not fully understand the different brain regions, as well as how they affect our sleep patterns. With this new discovery, more clever, more effective treatments can be developed.

But should not expect too soon."Although we have made an important new step, it still takes a while longer for new therapies to be based on today's results," Adamantidis said.