- What weakness of conventional alarm clocks was Gauri Nanda specifically trying to defeat?
Sleep and Circadian Biology
The biology of sleep, wakefulness, and internal clocks.
- How did researchers simulate jetlag in hamsters to test sildenafil's effects?
- Why might sildenafil speed up the resetting of a hamster's circadian rhythm?
- Did sildenafil help hamsters adjust to both eastward and westward time shifts?
- What did the study find about the relationship between dark triad traits and preferring to stay up late?
- How does the period gene create a self-sustaining twenty-four-hour molecular oscillation inside a cell?
- What additional 'gears' did Michael Young discover that stabilise and reset the circadian clock?
- Why does the fruit-fly circadian mechanism translate so directly to human biology?
- What health conditions have been linked to disruption of the circadian clock?
- Why does playing the didgeridoo strengthen the same muscles responsible for airway collapse during sleep apnoea?
- What did the clinical trial measure, and how much did four months of didgeridoo practice improve it?
- Why has this low-cost, no-side-effect therapy not been widely adopted by health systems?