Dopamine receptor 1 neurons in the dorsal striatum regulate food anticipatory circadian activity rhythms in mice

CM Gallardo, M Darvas, M Oviatt, CH Chang… - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Daily rhythms of food anticipatory activity (FAA) are regulated independently of the
suprachiasmatic nucleus, which mediates entrainment of rhythms to light, but the neural …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of COVID-19 social-distancing on sleep timing and duration during a university semester

AN Smit, M Juda, A Livingstone, SR U, RE Mistlberger - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Social-distancing directives to contain community transmission of the COVID-19 virus can be
expected to affect sleep timing, duration or quality. Remote work or school may increase …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep timing and duration in indigenous villages with and without electric lighting on Tanna Island, Vanuatu

AN Smit, T Broesch, JM Siegel, RE Mistlberger - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
It has been hypothesized that sleep in the industrialized world is in chronic deficit, due in
part to evening light exposure, which delays sleep onset and truncates sleep depending on …

[HTML][HTML] Circadian mechanisms of food anticipatory rhythms in rats fed once or twice daily: clock gene and endocrine correlates

DF Patton, AM Katsuyama, I Pavlovski, M Michalik… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Circadian clocks in many brain regions and peripheral tissues are entrained by the daily
rhythm of food intake. Clocks in one or more of these locations generate a daily rhythm of …

[HTML][HTML] Dopaminergic regulation of circadian food anticipatory activity rhythms in the rat

AN Smit, DF Patton, M Michalik, H Opiol… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Circadian activity rhythms are jointly controlled by a master pacemaker in the hypothalamic
suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) and by food-entrainable circadian oscillators (FEOs) located …

Organisational characteristics associated with shift work practices and potential opportunities for intervention: findings from a Canadian study

AL Hall, AN Smit, RE Mistlberger, GJ Landry… - Occupational and …, 2017 - oem.bmj.com
Introduction Shift work is a common working arrangement with wide-ranging implications for
worker health. Organisational determinants of shift work practices are not well characterised; …

Circadian misalignment impairs ability to suppress visual distractions

AN Smit, M Michalik, AC Livingstone… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Evening‐type individuals often perform poorly in the morning because of a mismatch
between internal circadian time and external social time, a condition recognized as social jet …

Diversion of attention leads to conflict between concurrently attended stimuli, not delayed orienting to the object of interest

JA Hoffmeister, AN Smit, AC Livingstone… - Journal of cognitive …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
The control processes that guide attention to a visual-search target can result in the
selection of an irrelevant object with similar features (a distractor). Once attention is captured …

Illuminating sleep in the dark: The relationship between electric light and sleep on Tanna Island, Vanuatu

AN Smit - 2019 - summit.sfu.ca
Ideal sleep duration has been a topic of debate for centuries. In industrialized nations,
access to electric lighting has had impacts on our daily circadian rhythms and, consequently …