Molecular mechanisms and physiological importance of circadian rhythms

A Patke, MW Young, S Axelrod - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
To accommodate daily recurring environmental changes, animals show cyclic variations in
behaviour and physiology, which include prominent behavioural states such as sleep–wake …

[HTML][HTML] Circadian rhythm disruption and mental health

WH Walker, JC Walton, AC DeVries… - Translational psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Circadian rhythms are internal manifestations of the solar day that permit adaptations to
predictable environmental temporal changes. These~ 24-h rhythms are controlled by …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep and rest-activity rhythms

C Blume, MH Schmidt, C Cajochen - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
In modern societies, human rest–activity rhythms and sleep result from the tensions and
dynamics between the conflicting poles of external social time (eg, work hours and leisure …

Sleep timing, sleep consistency, and health in adults: a systematic review

JP Chaput, C Dutil, R Featherstone… - Applied Physiology …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The objective of this systematic review was to examine the associations between sleep
timing (eg, bedtime/wake-up time, midpoint of sleep), sleep consistency/regularity (eg, intra …

Chronotype and social jetlag: a (self-) critical review

T Roenneberg, LK Pilz, G Zerbini, EC Winnebeck - Biology, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ) has now been available for more than 15
years and its original publication has been cited 1240 times (Google Scholar, May 2019) …

Poor sleep quality and its consequences on mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy

C Franceschini, A Musetti, C Zenesini… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) seriously affected the whole of Italy. The
extreme virulence and the speed of propagation resulted in restrictions and home …

Social jetlag and related risks for human health: a timely review

R Caliandro, AA Streng, LWM van Kerkhof… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
The term social jetlag is used to describe the discrepancy between biological time,
determined by our internal body clock, and social times, mainly dictated by social obligations …

Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms

SE Jones, JM Lane, AR Wood, VT van Hees… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Being a morning person is a behavioural indicator of a person's underlying circadian rhythm.
Using genome-wide data from 697,828 UK Biobank and 23andMe participants we increase …

COVID-19-mandated social restrictions unveil the impact of social time pressure on sleep and body clock

M Korman, V Tkachev, C Reis, Y Komada… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
In humans, sleep regulation is tightly linked to social times that assign local time to events,
such as school, work, or meals. The impact of these social times, collectively—social time …

Sleep and mental health in athletes during COVID-19 lockdown

ER Facer-Childs, D Hoffman, JN Tran, SPA Drummond… - Sleep, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The global coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) pandemic and associated lockdown
restrictions resulted in the majority of sports competitions around the world being put on …