Circadiana

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Study says West coast teams have advantage : Ingmundson, who is also a a diplomate with the American Board of Sleep Medicine, says western-b...

Benefits of Power Napping and New research explores why we're sleepy after we eat and Serotonin, Acting In A Specific Brain Region, Prom...

Interesting idea, via Sleep Disorders blog: a pre-recorded morning talk-show puts you to sleep because it is a distraction from Real Life w...

(Image stolen from Xtinpore ) Well, I may not be the earliest bird, certainly not early enough to grab the worm, but I am early enough in t...

There is a new study on PLoS - Biology that is getting some traction in the media and which caught my attention because it was supposed to b...

Tangled Bank #54 is up on Science And Politics

From Afarensis , I got a new paper about circadian rhythms in primates: Twenty-four hour rhythmic gene expression in the rhesus macaque adre...

The next edition of Tangled Bank is fast approaching - it will appear on my other blog Science And Politics on Wednesday May 24th, very ea...

You may have noticed a new button on my sidebar that looks like this: If you click on it, you will be transported to the homepage of one of ...

In the previous posts in this series, I covered the circadian clocks in Synechococcus , potential circadian clocks in a couple of other bact...

Next edition of Tangled Bank , the blog carnival covering science, nature, medicine, environment and the intersection between science and so...

Cory Doctorow gave an interview to RedHat.com recently and mentioned Circadiana there. Although I am thrilled that he likes this place, h...

Seems like there is a good deal of interest today in Rep Patrick Kennedy's one-car accident last evening that he has attributed to takin...

I wrote before about the effects of circadian time and/or body temperature on time perception. But, did you know that being a smoker and b...

For decades, it was thought that prokaryotes did not have circadian clocks. Then, a clock was discovered in a unicellular cyanobacterium ,...

How I wish I could see this seminar at The Johns Hopkins University : Thurs., April 27, 4 p.m. "Circadian Oscillators in the Brain: Pol...

Prenatal alcohol exposure can alter circadian rhythms in offspring Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) suffer from a varie...

Evil Monkey of the Neurotopia blog has a good rundown on the recent finding that patients on Ambien walk and eat in their sleep.

I've seen this picture on a gazillion Lefty blogs this morning and was toying with the idea of posting it here with a snarky remark. No...

Michael Breus PHD, ABSM, of Sleep Disorders Blog looks at Steve Pavlina's end of the Polyphasic Sleep Experiment. From what I've se...

As you probably know, my specialty are birds, so writing this series on clocks in microorganisms was quite an eye-opener for me and I have l...

Asleep or awake we retain memory Sleeping helps to reinforce what we've learned. And brain scans have revealed that cerebral activity as...

Lindsay links to an interesting article in the Washington Post - Near-Death Experiences Linked to Sleep Cycles : As many as 10 percent of s...

Study Shows that Americans are Besieged by Sleeplessness More and more Americans work and walk around like sleep-deprived zombies , in part ...

Interesting, in today's New York Times: In the Genes: When the Littlest Family Member Snores, Too Snoring may be genetic. Children who s...

If you know what Chossat's Effect is, I guess you are a) a physiologist, b) expert in thermoregulation, and c) old. This is term that g...