A team of researchers has discovered a switch outside the brain that can help insomniacs get their ZZZs back. The University of California Los Angeles scientists reported the first evidence that a gene outside the brain controls the ability to rebound from sleep deprivation - a surprising discovery that could eventually lead to greatly improved treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders that do not involve getting a drug into the brain. The scientists report that increasing the level of Bmal1 a critical master gene that regulates sleep patterns in skeletal muscle makes mice resistant to sleep deprivation. When we
