title: Neuroscience: Suppressing One Drive for a Chance to Satisfy Another.
abstract: Food deprivation suppresses sleep, presumably to increase time available for foraging. A new study identifies a conserved gene, Translin, as a modulator of sleep in response to metabolic changes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Titos
authors.affiliation: FM Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: michael.crickmore@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Crickmore
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: dragana_rogulja@hms.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Dragana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rogulja
mesh_terms: D005508:Food Deprivation; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000235:genetics*