This image shows an increase in ‘hotter’ colors after cooling indicates more firing in neurons of the circadian clock. Credit: Shafer lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Circuits in the brain act as an internal clock to tell us it is time to sleep and to control how long we then stay asleep. A new study in flies suggests a part of that clock constantly monitors changes in external temperature and integrates that information into the neural network controlling sleep.
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