The Human Circadian Clock's Seasonal Adjustment Is Disrupted by Daylight Saving Time

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 1996-2000

  Kantermann, Thomas ^a   Juda, Myriam ^a   Merrow, Martha ^b   Roenneberg, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SLEEP; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; LIGHTING; SEASONS; SLEEP; TIME;

EID: 36048991770     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.025     Document Type: Article

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