Sleeping for Health: Mechanistic Insights
A special issue of Clocks & Sleep (ISSN 2624-5175). This special issue belongs to the section "Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 4600
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neurobiology; sleep; circadian rhythms; adult neurogenesis; mathematical modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In our upcoming Special Issue for the journal of Clocks & Sleep, 'Sleeping for Health: Mechanistic Insights', we plan to explore sleep–wake homeostasis, a universal phenomenon found in organisms ranging from C. elegans to whales. Insufficient sleep not only affects mood but also impairs cognitive and physical performance, posing a significant health risk, as shown by alarming statistics.
While we have made great strides in understanding the physiological basis of the sleep and wake states, a fundamental question remains: what is the true purpose of sleep–wake homeostasis? Without answering this, our understanding of sleep's impact on health remains limited to correlations.
A few key questions underlie this field: Why is sleep indispensable? What molecular, cellular, or systemic functions necessitate global state transitions? Does sleep benefit the entire organism or primarily the brain? Why do we experience two distinct sleep states, NREM and REM, with REM's unique simultaneous combination of sleep and wake features? Are NREM and REM simply ‘bedfellows’ competing for rest time or are they integral to the same process? All of these questions relate to understanding the mechanisms sustaining wakefulness and their role in driving sleep states.
For this Special Issue, we invite contributors to share new mechanistic insights that are supported by robust experimental evidence or mathematical models that align with prior data and offer testable predictions in the hopes of generating answers to the above-listed questions.
Dr. Irina Zhdanova
Dr. Nirinjini Naidoo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sleep homeostasis
- sleep architecture
- molecular mechanisms
- mathematical model