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Sleep And Psychiatry:
https://psychscene.co/46d0T09
ADHD and Sleep Dysfunction:
https://psychscene.co/4rrE9Cc
In this episode, Dr Sanil Rege explores the "how and why" of sleep by analysing a 2025 Neuron perspective paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40961940/) detailing the interplay between sleep, motor circuits, and catecholamine biology.
The discussion unpacks the motor theory of sleep, in which sleep control is embedded within somatic and autonomic motor circuits, and the catecholamine hypothesis, which posits that a core biological function of sleep is the inactivation of dopamine, noradrenaline, and adrenaline.
This podcast provides clinicians with a neuroscientific framework for understanding sleep as an active state transition involving a global downshift of somatic and autonomic motor systems.
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