Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
Quiet wakefulness: The influence of intraperitoneal and intranasal oxytocin on sleep-wake behaviour and neurophysiology in rats.
J. S. Raymond, N. A. Everett, A. Gururajan, M. T. Bowen
This study investigates how intraperitoneal and intranasal oxytocin affects sleep-wake behavior in rats, finding that it promotes quiet wakefulness while suppressing active wakefulness and sleep.
DOI 10.1093/sleep/zsad112