Comments on: Reading your body clock with a molecular timetable, inspired by flowers http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/28/reading-your-body-clock-with-a-molecular-timetable-inspired-by-flowers/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Chris http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/28/reading-your-body-clock-with-a-molecular-timetable-inspired-by-flowers/#comment-15761 Chris Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:25:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7504#comment-15761 @Kelly My understanding is that, since this is measuring metabolizes, it would detect any abnormalities such as delayed sleep, which is merely a condition where your body and the world disagree on time. I would also presume that a person who had adopted to a night shift would show that, amongst any other similar changes to sleep patterns. @Kelly

My understanding is that, since this is measuring metabolizes, it would detect any abnormalities such as delayed sleep, which is merely a condition where your body and the world disagree on time. I would also presume that a person who had adopted to a night shift would show that, amongst any other similar changes to sleep patterns.

]]> By: Kelly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/28/reading-your-body-clock-with-a-molecular-timetable-inspired-by-flowers/#comment-15760 Kelly Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:43:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7504#comment-15760 Isn't chronotype via pen-and-paper test unreliable and much more limited/influenced by things like work, seasonal variations in light, etc? Or is that his point - that it's just as unreliable? (The pen-and-paper also seems like it's going to be useless for someone with sleep disorders like Delayed Sleep Syndrome, whereas the metabolite test may actually detect that?) Isn’t chronotype via pen-and-paper test unreliable and much more limited/influenced by things like work, seasonal variations in light, etc? Or is that his point – that it’s just as unreliable? (The pen-and-paper also seems like it’s going to be useless for someone with sleep disorders like Delayed Sleep Syndrome, whereas the metabolite test may actually detect that?)

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