Paolo Sassone-Corsi • Yves Christen
Editors

2016

Each morning we wake up from a night of sleep, and each day we eat our regularly timed meals, go through our normal routines, and fall asleep again for another night. This rhythm, so-called circadian—after the Latin words circa diem (“about a day”)—underlies a wide variety of human physiological functions, including sleep–wake cycles, body temperature, hormone secretion, exercise activity, and feeding behavior.