The body's internal master clock
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What happens when the clock breaks
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The mystery of the eastbound flight
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The hidden costs of chronic jet lag
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Outsmarting the lag
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Master of The science of jet lag
diego Circadian Rhythm
Your body's rhythm, a twenty-four hour tide! (Oh-oh!) Needs a day per time zone, to switch its stride! (Yeah-yeah!)
Master clock size: The suprachiasmatic nucleus is only about the size of a grain of rice but controls your entire body's daily schedule.
A pair of small nerve cell clusters in the hypothalamus that regulates circadian rhythms. It contains approximately 20,000 neurons that coordinate biological rhythms with the environmental light-dark cycle.
What happens to human core body temperature during the night as part of the circadian cycle?
Approximately how many neurons make up the human master circadian clock in the hypothalamus?
Which organ contains 'peripheral clocks' that can get out of sync with the brain during jet lag?
Why did early single-celled organisms first evolve circadian rhythms billions of years ago?
Which hormone, produced by the pineal gland, rises in the evening to signal it is time to sleep?