| Contents: |
Pt. 1, Time, sleep, and rhythms: External time vs. internal time -- The pressure to sleep -- Owls, larks, and hummingbirds -- Pt. 2, Time, light, and the brain: Getting light into the brain -- Getting light wrong -- Geography and time -- Pt. 3, Interventions: Healing light -- Nighttime meds and melatonin -- Hospitalized with depression -- Beyond light: the charge in the air -- Pt. 4, Stages of life: The promise of pregnancy -- Strategies for babies and children -- The challenges of adolescence -- In later years -- Pt. 5, Chronotherapy in your life: Coping with shift work -- Racing the clock, racing the sun -- Chronobiology in the home and workplace -- Dawn of a circadian science. |
