Biological Rhythms (HANDBOOKS OF BEHAVIORAL NEUROBIOLOGY) - Hardcover

Jurgen Aschoff Aschoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306405857 ISBN 13: 9780306405853

Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1981

Synopsis

Interest in biological rhythms has been traced back more than 2,500]ears to Archilochus, the Greek poet, who in one of his fragments suggests ",,(i,,(VWO'KE o'olos pv{}J.tos txv{}pW7rOVS ~XH" (recognize what rhythm governs man) (Aschoff, 1974). Reference can also be made to the French student of medicine J. J. Virey who, in his thesis of 1814, used for the first time the expression "horloge vivante" (living clock) to describe daily rhythms and to D. C. W. Hufeland (1779) who called the 24-hour period the unit of our natural chronology. However, it was not until the 1930s that real progress was made in the analysis of biological rhythms; and Erwin Bunning was encouraged to publish the first, and still not outdated, monograph in the field in 1958. Two years later, in the middle of exciting discoveries, we took a breather at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Biological Clocks. Its survey on rules considered valid at that time, and Pittendrigh's anticipating view on the temporal organization of living systems, made it a milestone on our way from a more formalistic description of biological rhythms to the understanding of their structural and physiological basis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0306405857
• ISBN 13: 9780306405853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 563