Elderly Mice's Brains Are Bad at Handling Jet Lag
… and could help explain why humans have so many sleep disruptions later in life.
Strange things happen to sleep as the body ages. For humans, getting older can mean waking up over and over again or shifting to a much earlier wake-up time. In elderly mice, the region in the brain that directs the circadian clock—the suprachiasmatic nucleus—can go off the rails, as the 10,000 cells that make it up, which normally fire all together, lose touch and fall out of
