The hypocretin system is known to play a key role in controlling sleep and wakefulness.
Others stir and stretch into wakefulness, bleary-eyed and seemingly unaware of the sights that have just passed them by.
Better yet, patients can still take a stimulant as well, leading some to experience what are almost normal levels of wakefulness.
Efforts to increase wakefulness in night-shift workers have focused on the use of light at night to suppress melatonin, a sleep-regulating hormone.
For instance, one settlement with multiple generic firms is expected to give biotech Cephalon several extra years of sales of its wakefulness drug Provigil.
Rothoron, the gossamer bridge suspended between sleep and wakefulness.
Provigal can also induce a state of non-wired wakefulness in people who take it, making it a possible remedy for general lethargy or for workers who are making a transition from a night-shift job.
For instance, one settlement with multiple generic firms is expected to give biotech Cephalon (nasdaq: CEPH - news - people ) several extra years of sales of its wakefulness drug Provigil.
And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
We also observed that the sporran makes an extremely handy man-bag in which to store festival essentials -- Blackberry, press pass, and Zimbabwean amounts of Euros, with which to purchase endless espressos and thereby ensure wakefulness during the most demanding screenings, in which a half-woman, half-chair would represent a relatively conservative plot.
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