Internal time : chronotypes, social jet lag, and why you're so tired /

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Internal Time combines storytelling with accessible science tutorials to explain how our internal clocks work--for example, why morning classes are so unpopular and why "lazy" adolescents are wise to avoid them. We learn why the constant twilight of our largely indoor lives makes us depend...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roenneberg, Till
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Chronobiology.
Biological rhythms.
Circadian rhythms.
Biological Clocks
Chronobiology Phenomena
Circadian Rhythm
Chronobiologie.
Horloges biologiques.
Rythmes circadiens.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Circadian rhythms
Biological rhythms
Chronobiology
Kronologi.
Biologisk rytm.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Worlds apart Of early birds and long sleepers Counting sheep
  • A curious astronomer
  • The lost days
  • The periodic shift worker
  • The fast hamster
  • Dawn at the gym
  • The elusive transcript
  • Temporal ecology
  • Wait until dark
  • The end of adolescence
  • What a waste of time!
  • Days on other planets
  • When will my organs arrive?
  • The scissors of sleep
  • Early socialists-late capitalists
  • Constant twilight
  • From Frankfurt to Morocco and back
  • Light at night
  • Partnership timing
  • A clock for all seasons
  • Professional selection
  • The nocturnal bottleneck.

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