A Fish Who Barely Sleeps Could Help Turn Humans Into All-Night Party Animals

https://elifesciences.org/articles/32637?dom=icopyright&src=syn

Clearly underestimated, extremely good science, highly unusual, I have an interest in sleep medicine, I've delved into it for a fair period, as I need BiPAP, not CPAP, BiPAP is a more advanced variety allowing obviously bidirectional inflow/outflow pressure variation, plus, while I'd been in clinical training before my disability. I'd gone to numerous ouomonology lectures on the topic generally, being as pulmonology tends to ne the field where sleep med predominates, though I'd never run across such research...typically, in REM based sleep studies in humans, using polysomnography EEG, or quantitative EEG (qEEG), with its associated Z score, so called, the effort is to look for stertorous apnea patters pattern, due to laryngeal or pharyngeal obstruction, when one has such a study, there tends to be a very real phenomenon called REM cathchup, causing unexceptionally vivid dreams initially, I know, I'd actually been subject to it, when CPAP was initially tried in me in a ploysomnography run initially, the effects, I must say, were to say the least, as I'd said, exceptionally vividx to say the least. That being said, one tends to wonder whether ploysomnography has ever been tried to be correlated against hypocretin, levels, I believe was the term, one would think such fish might well generate sufficient neurologic activity to be detectable using surface electrodes, plus, I'd be most curious about differences between the surface vs. bline cave varieties, as well, you know? Exceedingly good catch, wow, that was a wickedly NAD pun, lol.

That pretty interesting, the adaption this fish made to its surroundings and the very small sleep requirement. Without the availability of light other than some other pattern or instinct it seems they would never know night from day just somehow their system would require the sleep just because of the time lapse from the last rest period. Even We as humans tend to sleep better when its dark but when they need sleep there are no dark or light clues. Thanks for the post, that added to something I didn't know before.

The link was the article, there was a link in the site you'd sent in here, I was able to get the actual research paper.