Unlocking the Brain’s Master Switch: How a Rare 1% of Cortical Cells Can Induce Sleep
Executive Overview For generations, sleep research has viewed the cerebral cortex as a passive passenger—a high-level processing organ that merely reacts to deep-seated subcortical directives from the brainstem and hypothalamus. The prevailing neuroscientific dogma held that while the slow rhythms characteristic of deep, restorative sleep are clearly observable in the cortex, the actual master signals…
