Starting with the beginning of the last century, a multitude of scientific studies has
documented that the lunar cycle times behaviors and physiology in many organisms. It is …

Organisms have evolved to cope with geophysical cycles of different period lengths. In this
review, we focus on the adaptations of animals to the lunar cycle, specifically, on the …

Recent years have witnessed a surge in human sleep electroencephalography (EEG)
studies, employing increasingly sophisticated analysis strategies to relate …

Before the availability of artificial light, moonlight was the only source of light sufficient to
stimulate nighttime activity; still, evidence for the modulation of sleep timing by lunar phases …

Sleep spindles are thalamocortical oscillations in nonrapid eye movement sleep, which play
an important role in sleep-related neuroplasticity and offline information processing. Sleep …

Highlights•Animal behavioral rhythms are ubiquitous and have shaped ecology and
evolution.•Present and past adaptations to large scale ecological changes depend on the …

The human circadian system responds to light as low as 30 photopic lux. Furthermore,
recent evidence shows that there are huge individual differences in light sensitivity, which …

The idea that abnormal human activities follow multi-day rhythms is found in ancient beliefs
on the moon to modern clinical observations in epilepsy and mood disorders. To explore …

Rationale: The energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinases (AMPK) is thought to play an
important role in regulating myocardial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) via its phosphorylation and …

Objectives Remarkably, the specifics of sleep along the human lineage have been slow to
emerge, which is surprising given our distinct mental and behavioral capacity and the …