Need To Pull An All-nighter? Reducing Nitric Oxide Gas In The Brain May Help Us Stay Awake

... People who must ward off sleep -- soldiers, pilots, truckers, students, doctors, parents of newborns -- might someday benefit from drugs that prevent nitric oxide gas from building up in the brain. New research finds that nitric oxide accumulation in the brain's basal forebrain is both necessary and sufficient to produce sleep, providing a completely new basis for developing drugs that help people stay awake -- or, conversely, sleep. ...