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Sleep centre is located in -

A
Basal ganglia
B
Medulla
C
Hypothalamus
D
Cerebellum
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'c' i.e., Hypothalamus o Sleep centre - Hypothalamus (Preoptic area of anterior hypothalamus),o Wakefulness centre - Reticular activating system in brainstem & hypothalamus."The sleep centre is in hypothalamus " -- Understanding of medical physiology."The patients who had experienced sleeplessness before dying had brain lesions in the preoptic area of the anterior hypothalamus which came to be known as sleep centre". -- www.thebrain.mcgill.

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