A person describes recurring dreams of their house spinning, triggered by heat in their east-facing bedroom. In one dream from August 2023, the dream diverged when an angry woman appeared at the door demanding they stop spinning the house.
Masashi Yanagisawa, a sleep researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center, received the 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for discovering orexin, a brain peptide whose absence causes narcolepsy. His work has led to transformational treatments, including a newly FDA-approved drug for narcolepsy Type 1.
MIT researchers discovered that short bursts of pink noise during sleep can strengthen cerebrospinal fluid waves in the brain, which help clear waste products like lactic acid and worn-out proteins. By timing the sound to peak slow brain waves, they increased the amplitude of these waves and enhanced CSF flow, potentially offering benefits for cognitive function, memory, and neurodegenerative diseases.
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