Tag Archives: Study shows new evidence of age-related decline in the brain’s master circadian clock

Electrical output from suprachiasmatic nucleus declines with age, leading to reduced circadian sleep quality in some mammals and (presumably) man — a discovery that explains what many of us have directly experienced as we age 0

This may be a potentially useful neuro-behavioral finding Gene Block (University of California – Los Angeles) spoke to reporter Stuart Wolpert about the research he and Christopher Colwell have done: “It is very clear that animals’ circadian systems begin to deteriorate as they age, and humans have enormous problems with the quality of their sleep [...]