Entrainment of the circadian clock in humans: mechanism and implications for sleep disorders.
Humans exhibit behaviour and physiology controlled by a circadian clock. The circadian period is genetically determined and administered by a series of interlocked autoregulatory feedback loops largely in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus. The phase of the clock is, however, synchronise...
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Appalachian State University Honors College
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Impulse: The Premier Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://impulse.appstate.edu/sites/impulse.appstate.edu/files/2007_5_10_metcalfe.pdf |