Circadian Rhythms - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
shift workers are ... times more likely to develop heart disease than those with typical work patterns	3	75%
At its highest at (PM)	6	75%
time where shift workers experience circadian trough (AM)	6	75%
body clocks are known as	endogenous pacemakers	75%
external changes in environment that affect bio rhythms are called	exogenous zeitgebers	75%
known for his cave study in 1962 and 1972	Siffre	75%
what is the master circadian pacemaker (SCN) (lies just above optic chiasm)	suprachiasmatic nuclei	25%
strongest sleep drives in afternoon (PM)	1-3	0%
he found they varied by (hrs)	13-65	0%
strongest sleep drives in early morning (AM)	2-4	0%
small drop in body temp between (PM)	2-4	0%
Body temp is at its lowest at (AM)	4:30	0%
study in bunker where the sleep wake cycle was between 24-25 hrs	Aschoff and Wever	0%
what is the study of how timing affects drug treatments called (eg taking aspirin last thing at night)	chronotherapeutics	0%
who showed how much sleep/wake cycles can vary (same guy who altered circadian rhythms using artificial lighting)	Czeisler	0%
study where clock was sped up (day lasted 22hrs) (et al)	Folkard	0%
the process where light sets the body clock to the correct time is called	photoentrainment	0%

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