ArticleTranslational psychiatry2018
Bipolar mood cycles associated with lunar entrainment of a circadian rhythm.
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- Evolutionary and physiological arguments for the existence of a circalunar clock in humans.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Lunar gravity predicts sleep timing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Synchronization of women's menstruation with the Moon has decreased but remains detectable when gravitational pull is strong.Science advances · 2025Article
- Epileptiform Activity and Seizure Risk Follow Long-Term Non-Linear Attractor Dynamics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- A Pattern to Link Adenosine Signaling, Circadian System, and Potential Final Common Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Major Depressive Disorder.Molecular neurobiology · 2022Review
- Synodic lunar phases and suicide: based on 2605 suicides over 23 years, a full moon peak is apparent in premenopausal women from northern Finland.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon.Science advances · 2021Article
- The risks of using the chi-square periodogram to estimate the period of biological rhythms.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Moonstruck sleep: Synchronization of human sleep with the moon cycle under field conditions.Science advances · 2021Article
- The Still Dark Side of the Moon: Molecular Mechanisms of Lunar-Controlled Rhythms and Clocks.Journal of molecular biology · 2020Review
- Drug repositioning for psychiatric and neurological disorders through a network medicine approach.Translational psychiatry · 2020Article
- Chris Cornell, the Black Hole Sun, and the Seasonality of Suicide.Neuropsychobiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
In bipolar disorder, episodes of depression and mania are associated with dramatic disturbances in sleep, which experiments show are likely to contribute to the pathogenesis of the episodes. A recent finding that 18 patients' manic-depressive cycles oscillated in synchrony with biweekly surges in amplitude of the moon's tides provided a clue to the cause of the sleep-disturbances. Analyses of one of the patients' sleep-wake cycles suggest that his mood cycles arose when a circadian rhythm that normally is entrained to dawn and controls the daily onset of wakefulness became entrained instead to 24.8-h recurrences of every second 12.4-h tidal cycle. The finding provides the basis for a comprehensive description of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of the mood cycle.
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