Daylight saving time begins this weekend, which means many of us will get an hour less sleep. But the health effects go beyond sleep – and can last two weeks or more. Here's what the research says.
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Everybody has a personal internal clock in their brain that dictates when we feel like eating, waking and sleeping. But what happens when our life doesn't match our body clock? And how do we read it?
When you eat is as important as what you eat. The mounting evidence for chrononutrition.
If you need an alarm to get up in the morning, you're probably not getting enough sleep.
Biological clocks set the pace for nearly all living things, and Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young – awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – helped us understand how.
Americans Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young share the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work that explained how our cells keep track of time.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
How to eat yourself brighter.
Children with ADHD are much more likely than other kids to struggle getting to sleep, and staying asleep. Up to 73% of Australian parents report their child with ADHD has problems sleeping.
Stay away from viruses in the early morning – and in winter.
We aren't slaves to our body clocks: changing your routine could make a huge difference to your sleep patterns.
While many of these devices, especially e-readers, seem harmless enough, the light they emit may affect our sleep patterns and leave us feeling tired the next day.
We all have a poor night’s sleep from time to time: those nights when you lie awake for hours trying desperately to go to sleep but can’t stop worrying about tomorrow. Or when you repeatedly wake up throughout…
Drugs widely used to treat asthma and pneumonia can become ineffective because they work with the lung cells’ body clock…
Jet lag is a discomfort many of us will have experienced in the days following a long-haul flight across time zones. Mathematicians in the US may have a jet-lag cure in the form a new app called Entrain…
You get hauled out of bed in the morning not just because of an alarm clock. We are genetically encoded with a 24-hour (circadian…
A blue-light light box can be used to help reset a our internal body clocks. Scientists have found this technique can help…
Circadian receptors have been discovered in the liver, as well as the brain. Circadian receptors – known as “the circadian…
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Research professor, CQUniversity Australia
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Reader in Chronobiology and Integrative Physiology, University of Surrey
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Professor of Behavioural Genetics, University of Leicester
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Group Leader at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
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Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Public Health; Senior Scientist, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow / Health Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
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Psychologist, RMIT University
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Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, University of Oxford
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Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey
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