# Sleep

[Optochemical control of slow-wave sleep in the nucleus accumbens of male mice by a photoactivatable allosteric modulator of adenosine A2A receptors](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47964-4)

[Inactivation of the DREAM complex mimics the molecular benefits of sleep](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.26.600859v2)

[Resisting sleep deprivation by breaking the link between sleep and circadian rhythms](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173912/)

[Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09261-y) (see also [[mitochondria]])

the identified genetics of "short sleep" humans may not be accurate: <https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nSwaDrHunt3ohh9Et/cause-area-short-sleeper-genes?commentId=GCQf5qjG4LyEdEJov>

Development of short sleeper phenotype after brain surgery: [Development of a short sleeper phenotype after third ventriculostomy in a patient with ependymal cysts](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3899325/)


See also [[brain]], [[genetic-modifications]] for more genetic interventions for sleep or anti-sleep.