{"id":28363,"date":"2023-08-18T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=28363"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:47:55","slug":"brain-cells-staying-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/18\/brain-cells-staying-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser-Known Brain Cells May Be Key to Staying Awake without Cost to Cognition, Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New animal research suggests that little-studied brain cells known as astrocytes are major players in controlling sleep need and may someday help humans go without sleep for longer without negative consequences such as mental fatigue and impaired physical health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xsmall\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/43\/32\/5792\">Published in the Journal of Neuroscience,<\/a> the study found that activating these cells kept mice awake for hours when they would normally be resting, without making them any sleepier.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-cta \" >\n\t<a aria-label=\"Read full article on WSU Insider\"\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/press-release\/2023\/08\/17\/lesser-known-brain-cells-may-be-key-to-staying-awake-without-cost-to-cognition-health\/?preview_id=235474\"\t\n\t\tclass=\"wsu-button  wsu-button--size-small\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\tRead More\t\t\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wsu-font-size--large wsu-spacing-after--xsmall wp-block-heading\">In the Media<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacytimes.com\/view\/certain-brain-cells-may-help-humans-stay-awake-longer-without-impacting-cognition-health\">Pharmancytimes.com<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/health\/a44870945\/these-sneaky-brain-cells-control-how-much-sleep-you-need\/\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astrocytes-the-secret-to-staying-awake-without-costs-to-cognition-and-health\/\">SciTechDaily<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New animal research suggests that little-studied brain cells known as astrocytes are major players in controlling sleep need and may someday help humans go without sleep for longer without negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34189,"featured_media":28364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28770,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions\/28770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=28363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}