While the first edition of the critically acclaimed and highly popular "Circadian Physiology" offered a concise but rigorous review of basic and applied research on circadian rhythms, this newest edition provides educators with the primary textbook they need to support a course on this cutting-edge topic. Maintaining the same accessible multidisciplinary approach of the original, this volume provides a thorough grounding in a broad range of topics, while offering instructors many unique advantages. This impressive handbook provides the foundation, along with the supplementary material, and all the implementation details necessary to run a cutting-edge class on an exceptionally timely and intriguing topic. This edition of "Circadian Physiology" not only updates the material covered in the original, but it also expands its length and scope, presenting many new findings, such as the discovery of new retinal photoreceptors, the identification of several non-hypothalamic circadian pacemakers, and the elucidation of genomic and proteomic mechanisms of biological timing. Three times the length of the original, this volume includes approximately 730 figures and 5,000 bibliographic references, making it a true handbook of circadian physiology.

Roberto Rennetti，是南卡羅來納大學的一位生理心理學教授和近日生理學研究者。1987年在聖巴巴拉的加利福尼亞大學獲得博士學位，隨後在弗吉尼亞大學的生物計時中心從事博士後研究工作。Rennetti從事近日生理學研究項目，側重近日機製和體內平衡機製的整閤作用，獲美國國傢科學基金會和美國國立衛生研究院資助。Refinetti是《近日節律雜誌》的主編，兼任《性與文化雜誌》的編輯。他的網站是www.drcadian.org，e-mail為refinetti@drcadian.org。