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Biological Rhythm and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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This chapter describes the concept of circadian rhythm in detail. The molecular clock mechanism of the master circadian clock and its interaction with central and peripheral clocks are explained. The chronobiological basis of neuropsychiatric disorders with available evidence regarding the circadian disruption in them along with the probable mechanism for the circadian disruption in these disorders is discussed.

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  1. Department of Sports Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

    Karuna Datta

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Division of Sleep Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

    Ravi Gupta

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA

    David N. Neubauer

  3. Somnogen Canada Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada

    S. R. Pandi-Perumal

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Datta, K. (2022). Biological Rhythm and Neuropsychiatric Disorders. In: Gupta, R., Neubauer, D.N., Pandi-Perumal, S.R. (eds) Sleep and Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0123-1_3

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