Journal of Circadian Rhythms
The official organ of the Brazilian Sleep Society
The Sleep Science Journal, announces the Special Issue on Chronobiology
The Journal is the official journal of the Brazilian Association of Sleep (ABS) and the Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies (FLASS) and is published online every three months,
The journal publishes scientific studies related to CHRONOBIOLOGY , SLEEP, and associated areas.
You are invited to submit your article to Sleep Science until December 15 2009.
Call for papers:
Thematic Issue on Chronobiology in March 2010
Deadline for submission: December 15th
Articles can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese
English translation will be provided by Sleep Science
No fee for publication. No fee for translation
Instructions for authors can be found in www.sleepscience.com.br
BOOKS
Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders
A Clinician’s Manual for Light and Wake Therapy
Anna Wirz-Justice
Francesco Benedetti
Michael Terman
‘Light therapy’ is the only treatment in psychiatry that directly evolved out of basic neurobiology research. It is recognized as the treatment of choice for seasonal affective disorder and has been successfully used in non seasonal depressionand other psychiatric or neurologic illnesses, including bulimia nervosa and Alzheimer’s disease. At the same time, ‘wake therapy’ is the fastest antidepressant known. Chronotherapeutic combinations of light and wake therapy achieve fast results and, by reducing residual symptoms, also minimize relapse.
This manual introduces chronotherapeutics for depression, a new synthesis
of non-pharmacologic interventions designed to accelerate remission in bipolar
and unipolar patients alike. It examines the underlying clinical research,
explains the involvement of the circadian timing system, and provides handson
instructions for treating inpatients and outpatients. Written by three of the
most prominent experts in the research and clinical applications of chronotherapy, this book enables clinicians to implement its principles and let their patients benefit from its practicality and effectiveness.
In this manual psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians and health
care administrators fi nd comprehensive overviews of theory, research background, practical guidelines, and future prospects. It is also essential reading for practitioners of sleep medicine.
Comparative Aspects of Circadian Rhythms
RESEARCH SIGNPOST, 2009
María Luisa Fanjul-Moles and Raúl Aguilar Roblero (editors)
Corresponding authors : Rüdiger Hardeland Barbara -Ann Battelle, Fanjul-Moles ML, Claudio R. Lazzari Mirian David Marques Menna-Barreto, LuizCarolina Escobar Ivette Caldelas, Robyn Hudson Mauricio Díaz-Muñoz, Raúl Aguilar-Roblero
The goal in editing this book was to provide a comparative view of the current knowledge regarding circadian rhythms and clocks at different phylogenetic levels. The contributing authors reviewed, both, the circadian molecules and the circadian mechanisms which function in representative groups ranging from simple unicellular organisms to complex ones such as invertebrates and non-mammal and mammal vertebrates. The book offers a token of different approaches to the field. Some relate to regulation molecules and their biochemical pathways which are involved in either circadian or exogenous aspects of the rhythmic process or how they function in photoautotrophic unicells as well as the neurobiological and molecular bases of circadian oscillators which function in some invertebrates and vertebrates. A number of works focus on the importance of environmental, social, and nutrient temporal signals as synchronizing agents in insects and in different vertebrate models. The reviews do not center only on the adult organism at the integrative level, but also provide an ontogenetic view at behavioral, physiological, and molecular levels. Furthermore, they supply evidence on the involvement of several organs as potential sources of circadian signaling in different vertebrate groups, which indicates the existence of multioscillatory circadian systems similar to those proposed for some invertebrates. We hope this book will be useful to students, teachers, researchers and to every one who is interested in the rhythms of life.
