The research team focused on the locus coeruleus (LC), a small region in ... over the 75 million neurons that make up the mouse brain," explains Valerio Zerbi, assistant professor in the ...

R esearchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain's "locus coeruleus" in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM ...

This neurotransmitter is released throughout the brain during stress reactions by a tiny group of neurons deep in the brainstem – the locus coeruleus. The researchers have surgically implanted a fine ...