Despite sleep's fundamental role in maintaining and improving physical and mental health,
many people get less than the recommended amount of sleep or suffer from sleeping …

Sleep is a complex physiological process and is a critical determinant of physical and
mental health. In the past decades, significant progress has been made in understanding …

Over a quarter of the workforce in industrialized countries does shift work, which increases
the risk for cardiometabolic disease. Yet shift workers are often excluded from lifestyle …

In the current global home confinement situation due to the COVID‐19 outbreak, most
individuals are exposed to an unprecedented stressful situation of unknown duration. This …

The human stress response has evolved to maintain homeostasis under conditions of real or
perceived stress. This objective is achieved through autoregulatory neural and hormonal …

This study assessed the effects of COVID-19 home confinement on physical activity,
sedentary behavior, smartphone use, and sleep patterns. Data was collected in a sample of …

The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus is remarkable. Despite numbering
only about 10,000 neurons on each side of the third ventricle, the SCN is our principal …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a world pandemic due to COVID-19. In
response, most affected countries have enacted measures involving compulsory …

Circadian rhythms, metabolism, and nutrition are intimately linked [1, 2], although effects of
meal timing on the human circadian system are poorly understood. We investigated the …

Introduction: Recent observations have shown that lengthening the daily eating period may
contribute to the onset of chronic diseases. Time-restricted eating (TRE) is a diet that …