Friedrich Stephan

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]

References

  1. ↑ "The Body Might Have Built-In Dinner-Bell, Studies Hint". Miami Herald, Oct. 6, 1992.
  2. ↑ Cassone, Vincent (2005). "The Clock that Tells the Time". Nature Neuroscience. Nature. 8 (1): 1165. doi:10.1038/nn0105-3. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  3. ↑ 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 978-0-300-10969-6.


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