Jayanth K. Rao

Future horizons: Toward an integrated neuroscience of sleep.

Sleep, emotional regulation, and limbic-cortical dynamics: From basic mechanisms to clinical translation.

Sleep, circadian rhythms, chronobiology, and neural synchrony: Integrative mechanisms in brain function, health, and disease.

This review explores how chronobiology and neuroscience intersect at the level of specific biological mechanisms, highlighting the suprachiasmatic nucleus as the central pacemaker, clock gene feedback loops as timekeepers, and thalamocortical circuits as mediators of neural synchrony.

Sleep, anxiety, and depression: The bidirectional brain-behavior axis.

This chapter explores how sleep, anxiety, and depression interact from various scientific and clinical viewpoints, including circadian rhythms, stress hormones, immune signalling, genetic and environmental effects, cognitive impairments, developmental factors, and new treatment options.