Friedrich Stephan

Dr. Friedrich Stephan is an American academic who is a circadian physiologist. He is the Curt P. Richter Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Florida State University. His research focuses on localization and function of biological clocks in vertebrates, light and food as entraining signals for circadian rhythms, obesity, ["The Body Might Have Built-In Dinner-Bell, Studies Hint". Miami Herald, Oct. 6, 1992.] sleep, and reproduction. [cite journal
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title =The Clock that Tells the Time
journal =Nature Neuroscience
volume =8
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pages =1165
publisher =Nature
date =2005
url =http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v8/n1/full/nn0105-3.html
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accessdate =2007-05-03 ] . He is credited as the discoverer of the suprachiasmatic nucleus ("body clock"). [cite book | author = Foster, Russell G.; Kreitzman, Leon | title = Rhythms of Life:The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing | year = 2005 | publisher = Yale University Press | id = ISBN 978-0300109696]

External links

* [http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/faculty/stephan/main.html Florida State University faculty profile]

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