Title
Internal Time : Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired / Till Roenneberg.
ISBN
9780674065482
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (270 p.) : 1 halftone, 40 line illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/harvard.9780674065482 doi
Call Number
QP84.6 .R6413 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
612 .022
Summary
Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns may be the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. Living at odds with our internal timepieces, Till Roenneberg shows, can make us chronically sleep deprived and more likely to smoke, gain weight, feel depressed, fall ill, and fail geometry. By understanding and respecting our internal time, we can live better.Internal Time combines storytelling with accessible science tutorials to explain how our internal clocks work-for example, why morning classes are so unpopular and why "lazy" adolescents are wise to avoid them. We learn why the constant twilight of our largely indoor lives makes us dependent on alarm clocks and tired, and why social demands and work schedules lead to a social jet lag that compromises our daily functioning.Many of the factors that make us early or late "chronotypes" are beyond our control, but that doesn't make us powerless. Roenneberg recommends that the best way to sync our internal time with our external environment and feel better is to get more sunlight. Such simple steps as cycling to work and eating breakfast outside may be the tickets to a good night's sleep, better overall health, and less grouchiness in the morning.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Worlds Apart
2. Of Early Birds and Long Sleepers
3. Counting Sheep
4. A Curious Astronomer
5. The Lost Days
6. The Periodic Shift Worker
7. The Fast Hamster
8. Dawn at the Gym
9. The Elusive Transcript
10. Temporal Ecology
11. Wait until Dark
12. The End of Adolescence
13. What a Waste of Time!
14. Days on Other Planets
15. When Will My Organs Arrive?
16. The Scissors of Sleep
17. Early Socialists, Late Capitalists
18. Constant Twilight
19. From Frankfurt to Morocco and Back
20. Light at Night
21. Partnership Timing
22. A Clock for All Seasons
23. Professional Selection
24. The Nocturnal Bottleneck
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
