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zeitgeber
[tsahyt-gey-ber]
noun
an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism's biological clock.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of zeitgeber1
Example Sentences
Back in 1976 Burkhard Pflug, a psychiatrist at the University of Tubingen in Germany, wrote that sleep deprivation might behave like a “zeitgeber,†or “time giver,†in people with depression and resynchronize aberrant brain rhythms.
The new findings may offer targets for reviving the zeitgeber in depression in accessible ways.
Light acts as a “zeitgeber,†a natural cue to our bodies’ circadian rhythms.
Historically, for C. marinus ‘zeitgeber time 0’ is defined as the middle of the dark phase.
Historically, for C. marinus ‘zeitgeber time 0’ is defined as the middle of the dark phase.
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