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Dr. Friedrich Stephan is an American academic who is a circadian physiologist. He is the Curt P. Richter Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Florida State University. His research focuses on localization and function of biological clocks in vertebrates, light and food as entraining signals for circadian rhythms, obesity,[1] sleep, and reproduction.[2]. He is credited as the discoverer of the suprachiasmatic nucleus ("body clock").[3]
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- ^ "The Body Might Have Built-In Dinner-Bell, Studies Hint". Miami Herald, Oct. 6, 1992.
- ^ Cassone, Vincent (2005). "The Clock that Tells the Time". Nature Neuroscience 8: 1165. Nature.
- ^ Foster, Russell G.; Kreitzman, Leon (2005). Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300109696.
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