Researchers have identified a second dopamine-driven "clock" in the brain that works alongside the biological 24-hour cycle, ...

New research suggests that mood swings in bipolar disorder are regulated by two clocks: the body’s 24-hour circadian rhythm ...

"Our model offers the first universal mechanism for mood switching or cycling ... mood switches in bipolar disorder patients ...

Circadian rhythm is the change in physiology and behavior of organisms with a periodicity of about 24 hours. The rhythm is generated by a cell-autonomous molecular clock 1,2.Research in the second ...

This clock is primarily driven by a set ... typically following a roughly 24-hour cycle. Allostery: A regulatory mechanism in proteins where the binding of a molecule at one site affects the ...

In a study published in Cell Metabolism, the scientists found that a key component of our circadian clock—the 24-hour internal molecular ... oxygen shortage. "The mechanism we discovered ...