- Sleep and feeding are mutually exclusive behaviors. Consequently, an animal must decide which behavior to express based on internal drives and environmental cues. These behaviors are also functionally interconnected : food-deprivation suppresses sleep, while sleep loss induces hunger.
- Neuropeptide Y is produced in the paraventricular nucleus and the hypothalamus, it is thought to have several functions, including: increasing food intake and storage of energy as fat, reducing anxiety and stress, reducing pain perception, affecting the circadian rhythm, reducing voluntary alcohol intake, lowering blood pressure, and controlling epileptic seizures.
- traumatic ventricular failure
- Cardiac tamponade
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