Early morning rise in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity: a role for maintaining the brain's energy balance.

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Summary

The view that increasing energy demands of the brain towards the end of the night essentially contribute to the early morning rise in HPA axis activity supports the view that sleep is not critically involved in this glucose-glucocorticoid feedback loop but may reduce the brain's sensitivity to the anorexigenic effect of enhanced glucose supply.

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2009-04-01
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Morning, Endocrinology, Internal medicine, Wakefulness, Corticosterone

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