‘Round-the-Clock’ Lifestyle Could Disrupt Metabolism, Brain and Behavior

“We are interested in how the light cycle changes affects ‘clock genes’ — the actual molecular gears of the circadian clock within cells — in different brain regions, particularly the prefrontal cortex, and how this translates to changes in the functioning of the cells in that region.”


In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that modern society was hard on human psychology, forcing people to get along in unnaturally close quarters.  Read the story at Science Daily