wakefulness

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Adenosine accumulates during periods of wakefulness and helps reduce brain activity, contributing to feelings of sleepiness.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

This brain region also receives signals involved in regulating sleep and wakefulness.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

After showing signs of wakefulness, he was transferred to the Sid Watkins Rehabilitation Centre in Liverpool on 23 December that year.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

After poor sleep, the brain tries to compensate during wakefulness, triggering pulses of fluid that coincide with sharp reductions in attention, according to a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

It was then that, as if responding to the name, the child opened its eyes wide in wakefulness.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman