Internal Time : : Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired /

Internal Time : : Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired / / Till Roenneberg.

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Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns may be the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. Living at odds with our internal timepieces, T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Roenneberg, Till,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.) :; 1 halftone, 40 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Worlds Apart
  • 2. Of Early Birds and Long Sleepers
  • 3. Counting Sheep
  • 4. A Curious Astronomer
  • 5. The Lost Days
  • 6. The Periodic Shift Worker
  • 7. The Fast Hamster
  • 8. Dawn at the Gym
  • 9. The Elusive Transcript
  • 10. Temporal Ecology
  • 11. Wait until Dark
  • 12. The End of Adolescence
  • 13. What a Waste of Time!
  • 14. Days on Other Planets
  • 15. When Will My Organs Arrive?
  • 16. The Scissors of Sleep
  • 17. Early Socialists, Late Capitalists
  • 18. Constant Twilight
  • 19. From Frankfurt to Morocco and Back
  • 20. Light at Night
  • 21. Partnership Timing
  • 22. A Clock for All Seasons
  • 23. Professional Selection
  • 24. The Nocturnal Bottleneck
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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