观点健康

How the secret of sleep keeps us awake
寻找睡眠的开关

Businesses can keep exploiting our tiredness while scientists seek to explain the mechanics of it
日本学者柳泽正史及其团队致力于找出人类的睡眠开关是如何工作的。一旦新药开发出来,睡眠不足和失眠之类的痛苦可能在一夜之间成为过去。

Humanity’s tormented 21st-century relationship with sleep raises a great many questions. Most can be dealt with as follows: no, not nearly enough; yes, but that would require a wholesale transformation of lifestyle and socio-economic context; OK, but that seems extortionate for a mattress. Yet the most basic question of the lot — how does tiredness work and what makes us sleepy? — remains tauntingly and magnificently unanswered. Cracking its secrets, says the neuroscientist who has arguably come closest to doing so, could transform the waking and sleeping world as we know it. Masashi Yanagisawa and his team have taken a bigger step towards solving the puzzle than anyone yet, but it remains (for now, at least) a flat-out mystery. Anyone who says otherwise is probably trying to sell you something.

人类与睡眠在21世纪饱受折磨的关系引发了许多问题。大多数问题都可以这样处理:不行,还远远不够;可以,但这需要彻底改变生活方式和社会manbetx20客户端下载 环境;好吧,但就一张床垫而言这似乎也太贵了。

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