A reward chemical in the brain is a real eye-opener.
Dopamine, a feel-good brain chemical, helps keep
sleep-deprived people awake, researchers from the National Institute on Drug
Abuse show in the August 20 Journal of
Neuroscience. Dopamine is also required for activity of a drug that treats
narcolepsy, Japanese and Chinese scientists report in the same issue of the
journal.
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