sleepiness
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In a small study on people with insomnia, when they were given a false negative sleep score, those individuals reported sleepiness and fatigue, as well as lower levels of alertness and clear thinking.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Takeda is testing orexin-targeting drugs in other conditions, including sleep apnea, chronic daytime sleepiness and in sleep-deprived healthy volunteers, and early results are promising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Dr Victoria Revell, an associate professor in transitional sleep and circadian physiology at the University of Surrey, says this strategy can "help reset the build up of sleepiness you will be experiencing".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
But if activity in the locus coeruleus becomes too high, it unexpectedly begins promoting sleepiness instead, a finding Silverman reported earlier this year.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
A certain sleepiness seemed to precede the battle, a quality of haze, of unreality, of dust in the air, dust in the haze.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
