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Chronotherapy : resetting your inner clock to boost mood, alertness, and quality sleep
- Title
- Chronotherapy : resetting your inner clock to boost mood, alertness, and quality sleep / Michael Terman, Ian McMahan.
- Author
- Terman, Michael.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Avery, [2012], ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QP84.6 .T448 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McMahan, Ian, 1940-
- Description
- xxxvi, 312 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- An approach to insomnia, depressed mood, fatigue, and other sleep-related problems harnesses the power of light therapy to reset the natural clock.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index.
- Contents
- PART 1 : Time, sleep, and rhythms - External time vs. internal time -- The pressure to sleep -- Owls, larks, and hummingbirds -- PART 2: Time, light, and the brain - Getting light into the brain -- Getting light wrong -- Geography and time -- PART 3: Interventions -- Healing light -- Nighttime meds and melatonin -- Hospitalized with depression -- Beyond light : the charge in the air -- PART 4 : Stages of life - The promise of pregnancy -- Strategies for babies and children -- The challenges of adolescence -- In later years -- PART 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.
- ISBN
- 9781583334720 (hbk.) :
- 1583334726 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012026117
- OCLC
- ocn785077597
- 785077597
- SCSB-8855128
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries