Chrono@Work B.V. Groningen is the first company this year to receive a grant of € 25,000 of SNN. The innovation grant for the Groningen company is intended for research into the feasibility of a sensor system that teaches poor sleepers to sleep according to their biological clock. Read more on the site of SNN. With…
With deep sadness we received the news that Professor emeritus Serge Daan passed away on Friday, February 9th, 2018. Serge Daan is the founder of Chronobiology at the University of Groningen and made human chronobiology possible by building time isolation units back in the nineties at the Biology department. He was a great teacher and…
In the broadcast of 20 January 2018 Argos investigates the consequences of the night shift for hospital nurses. Sometimes the distress is so severe that nurses hit the pills. What do they do to keep going? What does this mean for patient care? In this episode of Argos, an intensive care unit nurse of the UMC…
Chronobiologists are not in favour of shifting the social clock backwards and forwards twice a year, because of negative effects on sleep and other possible harmful health effects. In the news section of this website the subject has often been discussed. In recent years, the number of advocates for abolishing summertime completely has grown, and…
As a member of the Committee Nightwork, Marijke Gordijn contributed to a new publication of the Health Council of the Netherlands: Health Risks of night shift work. In the Netherlands about 1.3 million people sometimes or regularly work at night. Night shift work disrupts the day-night rhythm of the body, which may lead to adverse…
