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- Title
The new science of sleep: From cells to large-scale societies.
- Authors
Sharon, Omer; Ben Simon, Eti; Shah, Vyoma D.; Desel, Tenzin; Walker, Matthew P.
- Abstract
In the past 20 years, more remarkable revelations about sleep and its varied functions have arguably been made than in the previous 200. Building on this swell of recent findings, this essay provides a broad sampling of selected research highlights across genetic, molecular, cellular, and physiological systems within the body, networks within the brain, and large-scale social dynamics. Based on this raft of exciting new discoveries, we have come to realize that sleep, in this moment of its evolution, is very much polyfunctional (rather than monofunctional), yet polyfunctional for reasons we had never previously considered. Moreover, these new polyfunctional insights powerfully reaffirm sleep as a critical biological, and thus health-sustaining, requisite. Indeed, perhaps the only thing more impressive than the unanticipated nature of these newly emerging sleep functions is their striking divergence, from operations of molecular mechanisms inside cells to entire group societal dynamics. Sleep appears to be a universal state across the animal kingdom, suggesting it offers a conserved benefit to organismal health. This Essay highlights eight of the most exciting new discoveries within sleep science, discussing how these have expanded our understanding of sleep's function at the cellular, organismal, and societal levels.
- Subjects
GROUP dynamics; SLEEP; CELL physiology; SOCIAL dynamics; SLEEP deprivation
- Publication
PLoS Biology, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1544-9173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.3002684