Everyday Psych Life

TIME AND BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS The brain has been termed a time machine, a metronome, orchestrating, second by second, the working of our bodies, all the while conducting us from birth to old age. An entire science chronobiology has been developed to study how all living beings regulate their respective time cycles. Many bodily functions-awakening and sleeping, the production of hormones within the body (the concentrations of cortisol and growth hormone reach their peaks in the early hours of the morning), the menstrual cycle, Time and biological clocks awakenings in moods and fluctuations in the temperature of the a.m.)-body (the temperature drops to its. lowest around 4 are regulated by what is termed the biological clock within us.  Our biological rhythms are principally based on the rising and setting of the sun but continue with minor variations even when we are placed in an environment where we are deprived of these cues. These rhythms are governed by the hypothalamus and the Pin...