wakefulness

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After showing signs of wakefulness, he was transferred to the Sid Watkins Rehabilitation Centre in Liverpool on 23 December that year.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

The more blue-white tones in the lighting, and the brighter it is, the more it helps support our circadian rhythms—the biological clocks inside our cells that drive our cycles of sleepiness and wakefulness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

These patterns hint at a close relationship between Alzheimer's progression and the circadian system -- the internal body clock that regulates sleep, wakefulness, and other daily biological cycles.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

With its next-gen candidate, ORX142, management plans to pursue indications in neurological and neurodegenerative disorder patients to help them with wakefulness and cognition.

From Barron's • Sep. 26, 2025

For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; ear, eye, and mind were alike strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë