Dim light melatonin onset in normal adults and its relationship with sleep timing and diurnal preference

References

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine . 2005 . “ Diagnostic and coding manual ” . In International classification of sleep disorders , 2nd ed , Westchester , IL : American Academy of Sleep Medicine .
   Google Scholar
• Archer , S N , Viola , A U , Kyriakopoulou , V , von Schantz , M and Dijk , D J . 2008 . Inter-individual differences in habitual sleep timing and entrained phase of endogenous circadian rhythm of BMAL1, PER2 and PER3 mRNA in human leukocytes . Sleep , 31 ( 5 ) : 608 – 617 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benloucif , S , Burgess , H J , Klerman , E B , Lewy , A J , Middleton , B , Murphy , P J , Parry , B L and Revell , V L . 2008 . Measuring melatonin in humans . J Clin Sleep Med , 4 ( 1 ) : 66 – 69 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Broman , J E , Smedje , H , Mallon , L and Hetta , J . 2008 . The Minimal Insomnia Symptom Scale (MISS): a brief measure of sleeping difficulties . Ups J Med Sci , 113 ( 2 ) : 131 – 142 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Burgess , H J and Eastman , C I . 2005 . The dim light melatonin onset following fixed and free sleep schedules . J Sleep Res , 14 ( 3 ) : 229 – 237 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Burgess , H J , Savic , N , Sletten , T , Roach , G , Gilbert , S S and Dawson , D . 2003 . The relationship between the dim light melatonin onset and sleep on a regular schedule in young healthy adults . Behav Sleep Med , 1 ( 2 ) : 102 – 114 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Carpen , J D , von Schantz , M , Smits , M , Skene , D J and Archer , S N . 2006 . A silent polymorphism in the PER1 gene associates with extreme diurnal preference in humans . J Hum Genet , 51 ( 12 ) : 1122 – 1125 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crowley , S J , Acebo , C , Fallone , G and Carskadon , M A . 2006 . Estimating dim light melatonin onset (DLMO) phase in adolescents using summer or school-year sleep/wake schedules . Sleep , 29 ( 12 ) : 1632 – 1641 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Horne , J A and Ostberg , O . 1976 . A self-assessment questionnaire to determine morningness–eveningness in human circadian rhythms . Int J Chronobiol , 4 ( 2 ) : 97 – 110 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Johns , M W . 1991 . A new method for measuring daytime sleepiness: the Epworth sleepiness scale . Sleep , 14 ( 6 ) : 540 – 545 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Katzenberg , D , Young , T , Finn , L , Lin , L , King , D P , Takahashi , J S and Mignot , E . 1998 . A CLOCK polymorphism associated with diurnal preference . Sleep , 21 ( 6 ) : 569 – 576 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewy , A J , Ahmed , S , Jackson , J M and Sack , R L . 1992 . Melatonin shifts human circadian rhythms according to a phase–response curve . Chronobiol Int , 9 ( 5 ) : 380 – 392 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewy , A J , Wehr , T A , Goodwin , F K , Newsome , D A and Markey , S P . 1980 . Light suppresses melatonin secretion in humans . Science , 210 ( 4475 ) : 1267 – 1269 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin , S K and Eastman , C I . 2002 . Sleep logs of young adults with self-selected sleep times predict the dim light melatonin onset . Chronobiol Int , 19 ( 4 ) : 695 – 707 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moore , R Y . 1997 . Circadian rhythms: basic neurobiology and clinical applications . Annu Rev Med , 48 : 253 – 266 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moore , R Y and Eichler , V B . 1972 . Loss of a circadian adrenal corticosterone rhythm following suprachiasmatic lesions in the rat . Brain Res , 42 ( 1 ) : 201 – 206 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morgenthaler , T I , Lee-Chiong , T , Alessi , C , Friedman , L , Aurora , N , Boehlecke , B , Brown , B , Chesson , A L Jr , Kapur , V and Maganti , R . 2007 . Practice parameters for the clinical evaluation and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Standards of Practice, Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. American Academy of Sleep Medicine report . Sleep , 30 ( 11 ) : 1445 – 1459 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nagtegaal , J E , Kerkhof , G A , Smits , M G , Swart , A C and van der Meer , YG . 1998 . Delayed sleep phase syndrome: a placebo-controlled cross-over study on the effect of melatonin administered five hours before the individual dim light melatonin onset . J Sleep Res , 7 ( 2 ) : 135 – 143 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pandi-Perumal , S R , Smits , M , Spence , W , Srinivasan , V , Cardinali , D P , Lowe , A D and Kayumov , L . 2007 . Dim light melatonin onset (DLMO): a tool for the analysis of circadian phase in human sleep and chronobiological disorders . Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry , 31 ( 1 ) : 1 – 11 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Revell , V L , Kim , H , Tseng , C Y , Crowley , S J and Eastman , C I . 2005 . Circadian phase determined from melatonin profiles is reproducible after 1 wk in subjects who sleep later on weekends . J Pineal Res , 39 ( 2 ) : 195 – 200 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Selmaoui , B and Touitou , Y . 2003 . Reproducibility of the circadian rhythms of serum cortisol and melatonin in healthy subjects: a study of three different 24-h cycles over six weeks . Life Sci , 73 ( 26 ) : 3339 – 3349 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sletten , T L , Vincenzi , S , Redman , J R , Lockley , S W and Rajaratnam , S MW . 2010 . Timing of sleep and its relationship with the endogenous melatonin rhythm . Front Neurol , 1 ( 137 ) : 1 – 8 .
   Google Scholar
• Taillard , J , Philip , P , Chastang , J F and Bioulac , B . 2004 . Validation of Horne and Ostberg morningness–eveningness questionnaire in a middle-aged population of French workers . J Biol Rhythms , 19 ( 1 ) : 76 – 86 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright , K P Jr , Gronfier , C , Duffy , J F and Czeisler , C A . 2005 . Intrinsic period and light intensity determine the phase relationship between melatonin and sleep in humans . J Biol Rhythms , 20 ( 2 ) : 168 – 177 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar