News tagged with jet lag
Treatment with light benefits Alzheimer's patients, study finds
Exposure to light appears to have therapeutic effects on Alzheimer's disease patients, a Wayne State University researcher has found.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Researchers identify structure of circadian clock protein
(PhysOrg.com) -- Feeling jet-lagged? You may need your internal clock reset. New Cornell research has taken a major step toward treating jet lag and other more serious syndromes by advancing our understanding ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Differences in jet lag severity could be rooted in how circadian clock sets itself
It's no secret that long-distance, west-to-east air travel – Seattle to Paris, for example – can raise havoc with a person's sleep and waking patterns, and that the effects are substantially less pronounced when ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Conquering jet lag syndrome
Jet lag poses a problem for athletes flying to international competitions. Sunao Uchida summarises the lessons learned in trying to reduce the negative impact of jet lag on athletes - lessons that are relevant to all air ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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New chemical may lead to jet lag drug
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jet lag, as every long-distance airline passenger knows, disrupts the body's normal circadian rhythms, or body clocks, and causes some very unpleasant effects such as disturbed sleep and fatigue. ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Jet-lagged and forgetful? It's no coincidence
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic jet lag alters the brain in ways that cause memory and learning problems long after one's return to a regular 24-hour schedule, according to research by University of California, Berkeley, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Scientists clock on to how sunlight shapes daily rhythms
Fresh insight into how biological clocks adjust to having less sunlight in the winter could help us better understand the impact of jet lag and shift work.
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Shift work and cancer
Shift work can cause cancer. In the new issue of the Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[38]: 657-62), Thomas C. Erren and colleagues describe the current state of knowledge in this area and po ...
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Body clock drugs could ease psychiatric disorders and jet lag
UK researchers have successfully used a drug to reset and restart the natural 24 hour body clock of mice in the lab. The ability to do this in a mammal opens up the possibility of dealing with a range of human difficulties ...
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Jet Lag Sends Brain Ahead A Time Zone, Leaves Kidneys In Another
Human beings aren't built to cross time zones. After an international flight, it takes days for the body to overcome the fatigue and nausea of jet lag, the biological price of doing business in the modern ...
Jun 26, 2010 |
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Down with jet lag
Journeys across several time zones make our internal body clocks go haywire. We feel exhausted and tense, and our sleep pattern is out of synch. As scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Researchers use math to reduce jet lag
Reducing jet lag is the aim of a new mathematical methodology and software program developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Michigan.
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet helps summer travelers beat jet lag
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the summer travel season begins, many vacation and business travelers will beat jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Jet lag disturbs sleep by upsetting internal clocks in 2 neural centers
Jet lag is the bane of many travelers, and similar fatigue can plague people who work in rotating shifts. Scientists know the problem results from disruption to the body's normal rhythms and are getting closer to a better ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Paper sheds new 'light' on fascinating rhythms of the circadian clock
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long known that interrupting the 24-hour circadian rhythm plays havoc with the lives and health of medical, military and airline personnel, factory employees and travelers.
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Feb 16, 2009 |
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Jet lag
Jet lag, also jetlag or jet-lag, medically referred to as "desynchronosis" is a physiological condition which is a consequence of alterations to circadian rhythms; it is classified as one of the circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Jet lag results from rapid long-distance transmeridian (east-west or west-east) travel, as on a jet plane.
The condition of jet lag may last many days, and recovery rates of 1 day per eastward time zone or 1 day per 1.5 westward time zones are mentioned as fair guidelines.
For more information about Jet lag, read the full article at
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