title: An arousing discovery on catalepsy: orexin regulates vestibular motor functions.
abstract: A study by Zhang et al. in this issue of Neuron reveals a novel mechanism of control of vestibular motor functions by the orexin (hypocretin) system in the perifornical/LH area through the lateral vestibular nucleus in the brainstem. This knowledge provides new insights into the understanding of brain circuitry that controls motor functions and diseases/conditions related to impairments in this circuitry.
authors.affiliation: Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism Program, Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. xiao-bing.gao@yale.edu
authors.forename: Xiao-Bing
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Tamas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Horvath