Our body is tuned to function in a synchronous manner with a "circadian" or day-and-night rhythm. Alterations to daily lifestyles due to the current stressful routines people follow can disrupt the ...

You go to bed at the same time every night but still feel exhausted in the morning. You crash at 3 PM daily despite getting eight hours of sleep. You lie awake staring at the ceiling when you should ...

Artificial lighting from sources as common as streetlights may disrupt the circadian rhythms and immune systems of mammals, and even raise the risk of death, a new study by Tel Aviv University ...

Many studies have shown that potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbances ('ventricular arrhythmia') are more likely to occur in the morning, when people wake after a night's sleep, but until now the ...

Disrupted circadian rhythms, which can even be caused by chronic light exposure, affects normal physiological functions, resulting in anxiety, hyperactivity, and memory deficits. These disruptions, ...

Borniger lab has found that breast cancer forces neurons (green) in a region of the mouse hypothalamus called the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), seen here, into a hyperactive state. This “always on” ...