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...back in August that Glenn was told he wouldn't be taking part in a test of melatonin, the natural sleep hormone, because he "did not meet one of the medical criteria for participation," Dr. Charles Czeisler, the surgeon who disqualified Glenn, told the New York Times Wednesday. For two months, NASA endeavored to keep the news quiet -- ostensibly because it was a private medical matter. Evidently, it didn't fit the mold of a feisty American hero blasting back into orbit. Neither does the prospect of delaying the launch, with Clinton and hundreds of congressmen, celebrities and network anchormen...
Jayne also noted that Dr. Charles A. Czeisler '74, director of the lab, has found that shift workers suffer more from rapid rotations, as opposed to fixed shifts or shifts that rotate every few weeks. Jayne jokes, however, that in the interest of science "[Czeisler] doesn't practice what he preaches. For easier adjusting, the schedule always rotates up--for example, the shifts could run day, day, evening evening, night, followed by one of two days...
...Green '96, who spent the summer of 1994 as a Kleitman fellow, says, "I would advocate the fellowship as a good experience for pre-meds. It's a great way to spend the summer. You get paid, you get clinical experience, and you get to work with Dr. Czeisler." Green received a $1,500 stipend for her work...
...clues on how the brain keeps time. Many blind people suffer from insomnia; unable to sense light, their bodies fall behind real time by about a half hour each day. Yet a third of the 1 million Americans who are completely blind do not experience the problem. Dr. Charles Czeisler, a member of the team that conducted the research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, speculates that removing the eyes of blind people, a common practice, may sometimes be a mistake, since it appears that even sightless eyes often can register light...
...battling their bodies' natural inclinations, this time to get up. When they do manage to doze off, their rest tends to be fitful, since other bodily functions keep to their usual rhythms. "Nightworkers are often up at noon because their brain and bladder wake them up," explains Dr. Charles Czeisler, director of the sleep laboratory at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The average nightworker sleeps less than the typical dayworker does...