A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepers

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-30

  Aeschbach, Daniel ^b   Sher, Leo ^c   Postolache, Teodor T ^a   Matthews, Jeffery R ^d   Jackson, Michael A ^a   Wehr, Thomas A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MELATONIN;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOMNOLENCE;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MELATONIN; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP STAGES; TIME FACTORS;

ELEOTRIDAE;

EID: 0037240894     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-020827     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Borbély AA 1984 Schlafgewohnheiten, Schlafqualität und Schlafmittelkonsum der Schweizer Bevölkerung. Ergebnisse einer Representativumfrage. Schweiz Arzteztg 65:1606-1613
2. Kripke DF, Garfinkel L, Wingard DL, Klauber MR, Marler MR 2002 Mortality associated with sleep duration and insomnia. Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:131-136
3. Webb WB 1979 Are short and long sleepers different? Psychol Rep 44:259-264
4. Borbély AA 1982 A two-process model of sleep regulation. Hum Neurobiol 1:195-204
5. Daan S, Beersma DGM, Borbély AA 1984 Timing of human sleep: recovery process gated by a circadian pacemaker. Am J Physiol 246:R161-R178
6. Dijk DJ, Czeisler CA 1995 Contribution of the circadian pacemaker and the sleep homeostat to sleep propensity, sleep structure, electroencephalographic slow waves and sleep spindle activity in humans. J Neurosci 15:3526-3538
7. Edgar DM, Dement WC, Fuller CA 1993 Effect of SCN lesions on sleep in squirrel monkeys: evidence for opponent processes in sleep-wake regulation. J Neurosci 13:1065-1079
8. Aeschbach D, Cajochen C, Landolt HP, Borbély AA 1996 Homeostatic sleep regulation in habitual short sleepers and long sleepers. Am J Physiol 270:R41-R53
9. Aeschbach D, Postolache TT, Sher L, Matthews JR, Jackson MA, Wehr TA 2001 Evidence from the waking electroencephalogram that short sleepers live under higher homeostatic sleep pressure than long sleepers. Neuroscience 102:493-502
10. Wehr TA, Aeschbach D, Duncan Jr WC 2001 Evidence for a biological dawn and dusk in the human circadian timing system. J Physiol (Lond) 535.3:937-951
11. Wehr TA 1999 The impact of changes in nightlength (scotoperiod) on human sleep. In: Turek FW, Zee PC, eds. Regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc.; 263-285
12. Dijk DJ, Czeisler CA 1994 Paradoxical timing of the circadian rhythm of sleep propensity serves to consolidate sleep and wakefulness in humans. Neurosci Lett 166:63-68
13. Moore RY 1996 Neural control of the pineal gland. Behav Brain Res 73:125-130
14. Mrugala M, Zlomanczuk P, Jagota A, Schwartz WJ 2000 Rhythmic multiunit neural activity in slices of hamster suprachiasmatic nucleus reflect prior photoperiod. Am J Physiol 278:R987-R994
15. Duffy JF, Dijk DJ 2002 Getting through to circadian oscillators: why use constant routines? J Biol Rhythms 17:4-13
16. Rechtschaffen A, Kales A 1968 A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring systems for sleep stages of human subjects. Bethesda, MD: Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
17. Cajochen C, Brunner DP, Kräuchi K, Graw P, Wirz-Justice A 2000 EEG and subjective sleepiness during extended wakefulness in seasonal affective disorder: circadian and homeostatic influences. Biol Psychiatry 47:610-617
18. Lu J, Zhang Y-H, Chou TC, Gaus SE, Elmquist JK, Shiromani P, Saper CB 2001 Contrasting effects of ibotenate lesions of the paraventricular nucleus and subparaventricular zone on sleep-wake cycle and temperature regulation. J Neurosci 21:4864-4874
19. Cheng MY, Bullock CM, Li C, Lee AG, Bermak JC, Beluzzi J, Weaver DR, Leslie FM, Zhou QY 2002 Prokineticin 2 transmits the behavioural circadian rhythm of the suprachiasmatic nucleus. Nature 417:405-410
20. Dollins AB, Zhdanova IV, Wurtman RJ, Lynch HJ, Deng MH 1994 Effect of inducing nocturnal serum melatonin concentrations in daytime on sleep, mood, body temperature, and performance. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91:1824-1828
21. Tzischinsky O, Lavie P 1994 Melatonin possesses time-dependent hypnotic effects. Sleep 17:638-645
22. Hughes RJ, Badia P 1997 Sleep-promoting and hypothermic effects of daytime melatonin administration in humans. Sleep 20:124-131
23. Dijk DJ, Duffy JF, Riel E, Shanahan TL, Czeisler CA 1999 Ageing and the circadian and homeostatic regulation of human sleep during forced desynchrony of rest, melatonin and temperature rhythms. J Physiol (Lond) 516:611-627
24. Born J, Hansen K, Marshall L, Mölle M, Fehm HL 1999 Timing the end of nocturnal sleep. Nature 397:29-30
25. Balsalobre A, Brown SA, Marcacci L, Tronche F, Kellendonk C, Reichardt HM, Schlitz G, Schibler U 2000 Resetting of circadian time in peripheral tissues by glucocorticoid signaling. Science 289:2344-2347
26. Spiegel K, Leproult R, Van Cauter E 1999 Impact of sleep debt on metabolic and endocrine function. Lancet 354:1435-1439
27. Reppert SM, Weaver DR 2001 Molecular analysis of mammalian circadian rhythms. Annu Rev Physiol 63:647-676
28. Valatx JL, Bugat R, Jouvet M 1972 Genetic studies of sleep in mice. Nature 238:226-227
29. Franken P, Malafosse A, Tafti M 1999 Genetic determinants of sleep regulation in inbred mice. Sleep 22:155-169
30. Tafti M, Chollet D, Valatx JL, Franken P 1999 Quantitative trait loci approach of the genetics of sleep in recombinant inbred mice. J Sleep Res 8(Suppl 1):37-43
31. Partinen M, Kaprio J, Koskenvuo M, Putkonen P, Langinvainio H 1983 Genetic and environmental determination of human sleep. Sleep 6:179-185
32. Heath AC, Kendler KS, Eaves LJ, Martin NG 1990 Evidence for genetic influences on sleep disturbance and sleep pattern in twins. Sleep 13:318-335
33. Naylor E, Bergmann BM, Krauski K, Zee PC, Takahashi JS, Vitaterna MH, Turek FW 2000 The circadian Clock mutation alters sleep homeostasis in the mouse. J Neurosci 20:8138-8143
34. Illnerová H, Hoffmann K, Vanecek J 1984 Adjustment of pineal melatonin and N-acetyltransferase rhythms to change from long to short photoperiod in the Djungarian hamster Phodopus sungorus. Neuroendocrinology 38:226-231
35. Pittendrigh CS 1988 The photoperiodic phenomena: seasonal modulation of the 'day within.' J Biol Rhythms 3:173-188
36. Mullaney DJ, Johnson LC, Naitoh P, Friedmann JK, Globus GG 1977 Sleep during and after gradual sleep reduction. Psychophysiology 14:237-244
37. Cajochen C, Zeitzer JM, Czeisler CA, Dijk DJ 2000 Dose-response relationship for light intensity and ocular and electroencephalographic correlates of human alertness. Behav Brain Res 155:75-83
38. Wehr TA, Turner EH, Shimada JM, Lowe CH, Barker C, Leibenluft E 1998 Treatment of a rapidly cycling bipolar patient by using extended bed rest and darkness to stabilize the timing and duration of sleep. Biol Psychiatry 43:822-828
39. Duffy JF, Dijk DJ, Klerman EB, Czeisler CA 1998 Later endogenous circadian temperature nadir relative to an earlier wake time in older people. Am J Physiol 275:R1478-R1487