wakefulness

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The researchers also uncovered a feedback loop that links growth hormone to wakefulness.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

"Sleep drives growth hormone release, and growth hormone feeds back to regulate wakefulness, and this balance is essential for growth, repair and metabolic health."

From Science Daily • Mar. 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

He could scarcely distinguish between sleep and wakefulness now, on the third day, found no important differences, either, between walking and standing still.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut