Biological clocks
Subtitle: effects on behavior, health, and outlook
By: editors, Oktav Salvenmoser and Brigitta Meklau.
Contributors: Salvenmoser, Oktav.; Meklau, Brigitta.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781607412519
Subjects: Biological rhythms; Biological Clocks -- physiology; Child; Chronotherapy; Circadian Rhythm -- immunology; Infant; Photoperiod; Time Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The human biological clock : from genes to chronotherapy / Michel A. Hofman; title: Photosensitivity : a disregarded attribute to analyze "photoperiodic clocks" / Hubert R. Spieth and Katharina Straus; title: Respiration rhythmic and quality of sleep to the total wellness and development of a child / Jong Yong Abdiel Foo, Stephen James Wilson; title: Circadian sleep-wake rhythms in preterm infants / Ronny Geva and Ruth Feldman; title: Interactions between the circadian and the immune system : a framework for the understanding of disease / Natalia Paladino ... [et al.]; title: Chronoecology of neotropical primates : the spider monkey Ateles Geoffroyi / Jairo Muñoz-Delgado and María Corsi-Cabrera; title: On clocks, chaos, and cancer : a biodynamic approach to cancer / Federico Cardona; title: Klepsydraic model of internal time representation : experimental findings and analytical properties / Jirí Wackermann.