Circadian Medicine

By Christopher S Colwell

Circadian rhythms, the biological oscillations based around our24-hour clock, have a profound effect on human physiology andhealthy cellular function. Circadian Rhythms: Health andDisease is a wide-ranging foundational text that providesstudents and researchers with valuable information on the molecularand genetic underpinnings of circadian rhythms and looks at theimpacts of disruption in our biological clocks in health anddisease.

Circadian Rhythms opens with chapters that lay thefundamental groundwork on circadian rhythm biology. Section IIlooks at the impact of circadian rhythms on major organ systems.Section III then turns its focus to the central nervous system. Thebook then closes with a look at the role of biological rhythms inaging and neurodegeneration.

Written in an accessible and informativestyle, Circadian Rhythms: Health and Disease, will be aninvaluable resource and entry point into this fascinatinginterdisciplinary field that brings together aspects ofneuroscience, cell and molecular biology, and physiology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118467787
• ISBN13: 9781118467787
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"