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  • Paradoxical timing of the circadian rhythm of sleep propensity serves to consolidate sleep and wakefulness in humans
  • Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons coordinate hippocampal network dynamics required for memory consolidation
  • Peak of circadian melatonin rhythm occurs later within the sleep of older subjects
  • Probabilistic sleep architecture models in patients with and without sleep apnea
  • Quantifying Human Circadian Pacemaker Response to Brief, Extended, and Repeated Light Stimuli over the Phototopic Range
  • A Period2 Phosphoswitch Regulates and Temperature Compensates Circadian Period
  • A Simpler Model of the Human Circadian Pacemaker
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