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Medicine · Neurology
A comprehensive primer published in NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience provides a timely synthesis of circadian rhythm biology as it applies to psychiatric and neurological conditions, bridging a critical gap between basic chronobiology and clinical practice. The authors detail how disruptions in circadian clock genes and environmental light-cycle entrainment directly influence neurotransmitter systems, mood regulation, and cognitive function, offering a mechanistic framework for understanding disorders such as depression, anxiety, and neurodegeneration. For a neuroscientist like yourself, who is developing preclinical models of placebo analgesia and exploring the neural circuits underlying subjective experience, this review underscores how circadian timing may represent an unaccounted variable in experimental pain studies and a potential modifiable target for improving therapeutic outcomes.
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