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1. Cavefish Sleep Patters May Help Understand Sleep Patterns - 2011-04-12 05:28:01-04
   There have been a lot of guinea pigs used by specialists to provide a better understanding on sleep patterns and today we learn that Cavefish have been used to probably bring back clues on human sleep disorders. A study published at the Current Biology, Apparently they first had to find out how and when fish sleep. After that, they found that once a fish had been in this position for 60 seconds, it was definitely in a different state: Like rousing a sleepy teenager, it took three times as many taps on its tank to get a sleepy fish moving after that 60-second mark. With all that settled, studying Cavefish concluded that a few specific genes must be responsible for the sleep change. It's likely that the genes regulating sleep in fish are the same genes regulating sleep in humans claims Richard Borowksy of New York University. Read Brought to you by: SLEEP Online Magazine - The SLEEP Blog - All about SLEEP, SLEEPING, and SLEEPINESS Cavefish Sleep Patters May Help Understand Sleep Patterns cavefish, current biology, genes, guinea pigs, new york university, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Disorders, SLEEP News, sleep patterns, sleepy fish, tank, taps, teenager, three times
   

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