By Jaime M. Monti, S. R. Pandi-Perumal, S. Chokroverty

This publication deals a finished yet hugely readable compilation of papers at the function of dopamine in sleep and sleep issues. prime specialists in sleep drugs, psychiatry and neuroendocrinology supply a wide point of view at the box, from demonstrated theories to the newest study advances. as a result, it represents an interdisciplinary, state of the art consultant for sleep problem experts, sleep researchers, psychiatrists, neurologists, pulmonologists, psychologists, and behavioral sleep medication specialists.

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In Drosophila, mutations in DAT, resulting in reduced dopamine clearance, showed a greater sleep rebound following sleep deprivation (Greenspan et al. 2001). Effects of dopamine on sleep homoestasis in this species appear to require downregulation of A-type potassium channels of the Shaker family and upregulation of two-pore leak potassium channels (Pimentel et al. 2016). In the basal forebrain of rats, levels of dopamine metabolites are increased during SD (Zant et al. 2011). Sleep deprivation in humans was associated with a decrease in dopamine D2/D3 receptors in the nucleus accumbens, which would be consistent with an increase in sleepiness, if dopamine inhibits this sleep-promoting area via these receptors.

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