Complexity Digest 2005.14 - 17

05/04/04

Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network
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Symposium: Energy For The Future,
Taipei, Taiwan, 05/04/08

Body Rhythms Set A Dangerous Beat, New Scientist Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: The team found that circadian rhythms appear to influence this variability: the unhealthiest heartbeat patterns appear around 10 am, regardless of whether a person is awake or asleep, active or inactive. (...)

The researchers also recorded for the first time the influence of circadian rhythms on motor activity. They fitted volunteers with wristwatch-like sensors to measure forearm motion at different times of day and night. They found that arms accelerated most rapidly in the afternoon, regardless of what physical activity the volunteers were engaging in.