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Out-of-sync body clock causes more woes than sleepiness

Bayesian math describes conflicts leading to maladies labeled ‘circadian-time sickness’

woman in late-night light

TIME TROUBLES  Timekeeping conflicts arise when internal cues don’t match external ones, such as late-night light.

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By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

When the body’s internal sense of time doesn’t match up with outside cues, people can suffer, and not just from a lack of sleep.