"Circadian Physiology" highlights the basic processes and latest research findings in circadian biology, and describes how this knowledge applies to the prevention of jet lag and the malaise associated with shift work, the treatment of sleep disorders and depression, the timing for effective administration of medicines, and the planning of ...
Providing an up-to-date overview of the field, this state-of-the-art reference details how sleep and circadian rhythms are interconnected, revealing the impact of various disease states on, and the molecular and genetic basis for, disrupted sleep and circadian rhythmicity and their effects on physical and mental health, safety, performance, and ...
The aim of "Circadian Rhythms" is to provide a resource that can be adopted by several types of users: those who are new to circadian biology, those who are already active in the field but are interested in learning new techniques and researchers who are considering moving to a new a model system or undertaking comparative studies and would like ...
Brain mechanisms for arousal, alertness, and attention underlie all cognitive functions and all emotional expression. This volume discusses the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and functional genomics of these states, and the medical consequences of their damage in human patients - e.g. vegetative states, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ...
An understanding of circadian patterns and their pathophysiology are important in deciding both the timing and type of therapy which can prevent cardiovascular disease. This book represents a milestone on information related to circadian patterns and sets the stage for future research relating to circadian patterns which is to follow.
A circadian rhythm is a roughly - 24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings, including plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria. The term 'circadian', comes from the Latin circa, 'around', and dies, 'day', meaning literally 'about a day'. The formal study of biological temporal rhythms such as daily, weekly, seasonal, and ...
A circadian rhythm is a roughly - 24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings, including plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria. The term 'circadian', comes from the Latin circa, 'around', and dies, 'day', meaning literally 'about a day'. The formal study of biological temporal rhythms such as daily, weekly, seasonal, and ...
Living systems are fundamentally dynamic and adaptive, relying on a constant throughput of energy. They are also, by definition, self-sustaining over the full range of length and time scales. This characteristic combination of constant adaptive flux and emergent persistence requires that the properties of all living systems must, at some level, be ...
This book is dedicated to asthma from the relatively new perspective of chronobiologic alterations. For all clinicians and investigators with an interest in asthma, it covers general concepts of chronobiology, circadian alterations in physiology and specific cells and mediators of inflammation, as well as chronotherapeutic and nonpharmacologic ...
Modern molecular biology and genetics has enabled significant strides in research on the basic properties of biological rhythms. These advances will, in addition to relevance for understanding of cell and body biochemistry, health, and aging, provide insights into the molecular control of behavior. This comprehensive account of the molecular basis ...
These books bring together recent neural models of vision, speech and language recognition and recall, cognitive self-organization, conditioning, reinforcement, motivation, attention, circadian rhythms, motor control, and certain mental disorders. In addition to unifying and predicting interdisciplinary data from psychology, psychophysiology, ...
The importance of time factors in the diagnosis and treatment of disease is the topic of this book. It looks at the development of the manipulation of some rhythmic processes to optimize response to treatment, and the establishment of chronobiology as a science in its own right. The authors of this book have attempted to cover all those areas of ...
This study examines the condition known as parkinsonism of early onset with diurnal fluctuation (PEDF). It aims to clarify the differences between PEDF and early-onset Parkinson disease, then to compare PEDF with HPD (hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation). For the purpose of long-term observation of PEDF, previously ...
This symposium was held to advance further the recognition and appreciation of the need for timing in the study of drug activity and therapy. The proceedings contain papers on subjects ranging from the study of circadian rhythms in brain neurotransmitters to the possiblity of employing chronotherapy in clinical psychiatry.
This volume comprises the lectures and a selection of communications presented at the International Congress on Chronobiology, held in Paris, in September, 1997. Since the late 1960s it has been shown that a number of physiologic functions are regulated by a system of clocks controlling basel levels of activity and responsitivity to changes in the ...
Focusing on sleep and its associated disorders, this book discusses topics that have been selected to illustrate how research is being translated into clinical insights and therapy. Subjects examined include the mechanisms of intracellular signal transduction, effects of ambient geophysical cycles, the physiologic regulation of sleep and its ...
This timely publication describes several newly identified functions of melatonin and discusses the findings in terms of melatonin's actions on the neuroendocrine axis, the immune system, the gastrointestinal track and the pulmonary and cardiovascular systems in organisms ranging from unicellular animals to humans. Containig the most recent ...
The International Summer School of Brain Research, on which this book is based, was organized by the Netherlands Institute for Brain research (NIBR), which has a rich history dating back to the beginning of the century. The focus of interest in this present volume of "Progress in Brain Research" are the few thousand neurons at the base of the ...
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