Circadian Physiology

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"...Refinetti goes to great lengths in defining and explaining many basic concepts with no presumption that undergraduates who would be interested in the subfield of circadian biology would have already covered most of these topics: for example, scientific methods, research ethics, statistics. This probably makes the book easily readable and interesting for some motivated high school students and people with very little science background...This book is seventh heaven for visually oriented learners."
-Mehmet Dokucu, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 51, No. 43, October 2006
"Although the size of the book has been expanded three-fold...the popular overall structure of the first edition has been maintained, with five sections covering history and methodology, phemonenology, mechanisms, substrates, and practical applications. Each chapter has extensive tables, figures, photographs.... New features of the second edition include discussions of retinal photoreceptors, non-hypothalamic circadian pacemakers, and genomic and proteomic mechanisms. ...the text remains one of the few comprehensive and scientific introductions to circadian physiology that are currently available, and it should remain in popular demand...."
--Roy J. Shepard, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 20, Issue 1
"... reviews rigorously all the basic and applied researches on circadian rhythms published up today. ... An included CD-Rom provides a suite of computer programs designed to offer practical experience on a variety of topics. ... The rigorous and easy to read way of description of all the aspects of circadian physiology brings clarity to this new science elucidating also the involved mechanisms of action of biological timing. The scheduling of the different topics, the relative use of the CD-Rom included, with 5,000 bibliographic references reported, makes it an easy to read book for Dermatologists, Cosmetic Chemists, Plastic Surgeons, and of course, all the life scientists interested to better understand the importance of circadian rhythms in the everyday life. The reported selection of facts and theories compiled in an easy way makes the circadian rhythmicity comprehensible to all students and general readers too."
- P. Morganti, Editor-in-Chief, in the Journal of Applied Cosmetology, Vol. 25, No. 2, pg. 76-78, April/June 2007
praise for the first edition
"Marvelous summary of research on circadian rhythms and the relevance to human behavior."
-- James W. Kalat Biological Psychology, 8th Edition
"Both the book and the programs provide interesting and useful material."
-- Stanley Coren, APA Review of Books