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Study Links Exposure to Light at Night to Depression
Researchers at the Nara Medical University School of Medicine in Nara, Japan, performed a two year study on 863 subjects. The study found that the link between light exposure and depression occurred even when the light did not cause people to awaken or...
Collaboration with Blind Veterans UK
The launch of our exciting research collaboration with the Blind Veterans UK Charity. Nigel Jones, Managing Director and COO of Circadian Therapeutics (CT) is pictured signing the research collaboration agreement with Major General (Rtd) Nick Caplin CB, Chief...
Study Underlines Increased Cancer Risk for Women Night Workers Due to Circadian Rhythm Disruption
The “Journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention” recently published a meta-analysis of 61 previous studies concluding that long-term night shift work among women increased their risk of developing 11 common kinds of cancer by 19%. More information...
Circadian Rhythm Disruption Linked to Alzheimer’s
Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published in the “JAMA Neurology” journal, indicates that circadian rhythm disruptions occur much earlier in people whose memories are intact but whose brain scans show early, preclinical evidence of...
Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries of Molecular Mechanisms Controlling the Circadian Rhythm
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize today to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. Using fruit flies as a model organism, this year's...
Watch Professor Russell Foster Deliver a TED Talk Describing Why We Sleep
Watch Russell Foster share three popular theories about why we sleep, debunk some myths about how much sleep we need at different ages, and describe some bold new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health. Watch video here