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Sleep-Wake Circuits

Ascending arousal system vs sleep-promoting VLPO; orexin from hypothalamus stabilizes wake state.

A free, animated sleep-wake circuits you can read here or embed on any website, from Scrollchart.

Mutual-inhibition flip-flop between VLPO (sleep) and arousal nuclei (LC, raphe, TMN, basal forebrain); orexin from lateral hypothalamus stabilizes the wake state. Loss of orexin = narcolepsy.

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  • Articles in the health science category
  • Editorial pages where a quick visual replaces a wall of text
  • Content-marketing posts that need a clean, branded illustration

Source & accuracy

This sleep-wake circuits is an editorial illustration built to represent the concept accurately. Where it shows figures, they are typical or representative values chosen to make the relationship clear, not a single underlying dataset. The diagram and its explainer are reviewed and maintained centrally, and updated over time as understanding improves.

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What this is
A free, embeddable, animated sleep-wake circuits for any website.
Who uses it
Medical educators, Health blogs, Biohacker blogs, Wellness sites.
How to embed
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License
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