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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com


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Mis-clock-ceptions:

Spring Forward, Fall Back - should you watch out tomorrow morning?

Category: Clock News

If you live in (most places in) the United States as well as many other countries, you have reset your clocks back by one hour last night (or last week). How will that affect you and other people? One possibility...

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Circadian Quackery

Category: Mis-clock-ceptions

Believe me, I love the word "circadian". It is a really cool word, invented by Franz Halberg in the late 1950s, out of 'circa' (Latin - "about") and diem ("a day"), to denote daily rhythms in biochemistry, physiology and behavior...

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For my European Readers

Category: Fun

Not that it's a good thing.......

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Reverend William Paley's Circadian Clock

Category: Mis-clock-ceptions

An oldie but goodie (June 12, 2005) debunking one of the rare Creationist claims that encroaches onto my territory....

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Sleep Genes are not the same as 'Genes for sleep'

Category: Chronobiology

Back in the late 1990s, when people first started using various differential screens, etc. looking for elusive "genes for sleep", I wrote in my written prelims (and reprinted it on my blog several years later): Now the sleep researchers are...

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Circadian Meditation?!

Category: Mis-clock-ceptions

How does one fisk a medical quackery when there is no attempt whatsoever to explain what it is all about - not even a string of New-Age mumbo-jumbo, nonsensical, vaguely English-sounding words. All it says is: Buy The Book. Yeah,...

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Lesson of the Day: Circadian Clocks are HARD to shift!

Category: Mis-clock-ceptions

This is a story about two mindsets - one scientific, one not - both concerned with the same idea but doing something very different with it. Interestingly, both arrived in my e-mail inbox on the same day, but this post...

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Circadian Rhythm Degeneration Syndrome?

Category: Books

OK, it is a premise of a new SF novel. The book description does not look too promising, though I guess I should read it for professional reasons (I put it on my amazon wish-list for now): Last call from...

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The Cultural Politics of Sleep

Category: Sleep

Nicole Eugene recently defended her Masters Thesis called Potent Sleep: The Cultural Politics of Sleep (PDF) on a topic that I find fascinating: Why is sleep, a moment that is physiologically full and mentally boundless, thought to be a moment...

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No, light behind the knee does NOT shift the clock!

Category: Mis-clock-ceptions

For science bloggers, a study older than a week is often too old to blog about. For scientists, last five years of literature are the most relevant (and many grad students, unfortunately, never read the older stuff). I thought that...

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