Conundrum

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by classicman

lol "wormhood" lol - eat sleep shit - isn't that all they do?

Do they sleep?

[classicman]

Originally Posted by classicman

lol "wormhood" lol - eat sleep shit - isn't that all they do?

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Do they sleep?

Geez - I have no idea now that you mention it - somebody call research and get them on it. We need to know.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Apparently, they do.

David Raizen, MD, PhD, of the Department of Neurology is a CSRN clinician scientist who is extending the findings in fruit flies to an even simpler animal known as Caenorhabditis elegans, a soildwelling round worm. He has identified a quiescent behavioral state that like sleep in humans and mice is controlled by the activity of circadian genes and that cannot be bypassed, just as sleep cannot be bypassed in humans.