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Author:

Terman, Michael.

Title:

Chronotherapy : resetting your inner clock to boost mood, alertness, and quality sleep / Michael Terman, Ian McMahan.

Publisher:

Avery,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxxvi, 312 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Circadian rhythms--Therapeutic use.
Sleep deprivation--Therapeutic use.
Sleep--Physiological aspects.

Other Authors:

McMahan, Ian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index.

Contents:

Time, sleep, and rhythms. External time vs. internal time ; The pressure to sleep ; Owls, larks, and hummingbirds -- Time, light, and the brain. Getting light into the brain ; Getting light wrong ; Geography and time -- Interventions. Healing light ; Nighttime meds and melatonin ; Hospitalized with depression ; Beyond light : the charge in the air -- Stages of life. The promise of pregnancy ; Strategies for babies and children ; The challenges of adolescence ; In later years -- 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.

ISBN:

1583334726 (hbk.)
9781583334720 (hbk.) :

LCCN:

2012026117

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)