Chronotherapy: Resetting Your Inner Clock to Boost Mood, Alertness, and Quality Sleep
"The authors' breakthrough message: Once we understand how our circadian rhythm affects our lives, we can control some environmental factors and cure ourselves of insomnia, fatigue and depression." -- Susan Adams,Forbes Magazine"Full of good science and advice about getting our inner clocks ticking right."-- Claudia Dreifus, writer forThe New York Times, commenting on Facebook"A really nice book. Wonderful stories, great science.It's fun reading and packed with information." -- Dr. Michael Roizen, RadioMD,YOU The Owner's Manual"Breakthrough therapy for insomnia, depression, and circadian rhythm regulation!"-- Robert Arnot, M.D., author ofDr. Bob Arnot's Guide to Turning Back the Clock."Readable, highly literate, timely and indispensable,Reset Your Inner Clockpopularizes the basic biology, and clinical applications, side by side." --Anna Wirz-Justice, Ph.D., inPsychiatric Times.“Like all living organisms, we have an internal clock that sets the timing of our daily behavior and physiology. Also shared is our sensitivity to the environmental fluctuations of light and darkness. Chronobiology seeks to harness this new knowledge to understand critical aspects of the ‘when’ and ‘why’ of human behavior. Why does someone become depressed at this particular time of year? Why does one’s attention flag every afternoon at the same time? Why can’t our children go to sleep until well after midnight?Chronotherapypicks up the baton, seeking to provide rhythm-changing interventions that address these problems. And there is no one that has led the development of this field more so than psychologist Michael Terman of Columbia University. From the now-mainstream use of bright light therapy, through explanations of melatonin usage, sleep timing modifications, and dawn simulation—the full range of rhythm-shifting strategies is laid out in basic and elegant fashion. This book points us towards a new and enriched age of mental health care.”— John Gottlieb, M.D., Northwestern University, from the Foreword