Profound progress has been made in the fields of chronobiology and psychobiology within the past decade, in theory, experiment and clinical application. This volume integrates these new developments on all levels from the molecular, genetic and cellular to the psycho social processes of everyday life. We present a balanced variety of research from workers around the globe, who discuss the funda mental significance of their approach for a new understanding of the central role of ultradian rhythms in the self-organizing and adaptive dynamics of all life processes. The years since the publication of Ultra dian rhythms in physiology and behavior by Schultz and Lavie in 1985 have seen a burgeoning realization of the ubiquity and importance of ultradian rhythms within and between every level of the psychobiological hierarchy. The experimental evidence lies scattered through a disparate litera ture, and this volume attempts, albeit in a highly selective manner, to bring together some of the different strands. The editors are very conscious of the omission of many important current aspects; e.g. we have not included any of the fascinating and indeed long and well-established experiments with plants (Bunning 1971, 1977; Guillaume and Koukkari 1987; Millet et al. 1988; 10hnsson et al. 1990) that are widely regarded as having initiated the whole field of chronobiology (De Mairan 1729). Neither have we reviewed recent developments on glycolytic oscillations, since a great deal of the seminal work was already completed by 1973 (Chance et al. 1973).
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978-1-4471-1969-2 (9781447119692)
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10.1007/978-1-4471-1969-2
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I The Molecular-Genetic-Cellular Level.- 1 Intracellular Time Keeping: Epigenetic Oscillations Reveal the Functions of an Ultradian Clock.- 2 Rhythms of Protein Synthesis and Other Circahoralian Oscillations: The Possible Involvement of Fractals.- 3 A Precise Circadian Clock from Chaotic Cell Cycle Oscillations.- 4 Oscillations and Cancer.- 5 Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Ultradian Rhythms in Drosophila.- 6 Do Ultradian Oscillators Underlie the Circadian Clock in Drosophila?.- II The Neuroendocrinal and Developmental Level.- 7 Endocrine Ultradian Rhythms During Sleep and Wakefulness.- 8 A Parsimonious Model of Amplitude and Frequency Modulation of Episodic Hormone Secretory Bursts as a Mechanism for Ultradian Signalling by Endocrine Glands.- 9 Ontogenesis of Human Ultradian Rhythms.- 10 Phase Plots of Temporal Oscillations.- 11 Metabolic and Behavioural Long Period Ultradian Rhythms in Endotherms.- III The Behavioural and Psychosocial Level.- 12 Ultradian Behaviour Cycles in Humans: Developmental and Social Aspects.- 13 Ultradian Cycles in Sleep,Propensity: Or, Kleitman's BRAC Revisited.- 14 The Basic Rest-Activity Cycle - 32 Years Later: An Interview with Nathaniel Kleitman at 96.- 15 The Sleep-Wake Threshold in Human Circadian Rhythms as a Determinant of Ultradian Rhythms.- 16 Reality, Stress and Imagination in Temporal Isolation Experiments: An Interview with Rütger A. Wever.- 17 Human Biological Rhythms: The Search for Ultradians in Movement Activity Behaviour.- 18 The Wave Nature of Being: Ultradian Rhythms and Mind-Body Communication.- 19 Epilogue: The Unification Hypothesis of Chronobiology - Psychobiology from Molecule to Mind.
