User profiles for F. A. Scheer

Frank AJL Scheer

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Verified email at rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Cited by 24872

Organization of circadian functions: interaction with the body

RM Buijs, FA Scheer, F Kreier, C Yi, N Bos… - Progress in brain …, 2006 - Elsevier
The hypothalamus integrates information from the brain and the body; this activity is
essential for survival of the individual (adaptation to the environment) and the species (reproduction)…

[HTML][HTML] Circadian rhythms, metabolism, and chrononutrition in rodents and humans

JD Johnston, JM Ordovás, FA Scheer, FW Turek - Advances in nutrition, 2016 - Elsevier
Chrononutrition is an emerging discipline that builds on the intimate relation between
endogenous circadian (24-h) rhythms and metabolism. Circadian regulation of metabolic function …

[HTML][HTML] Circadian disruption and SCN control of energy metabolism

A Kalsbeek, FA Scheer, S Perreau-Lenz, SE La Fleur… - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
In this review we first present the anatomical pathways used by the suprachiasmatic nuclei
to enforce its rhythmicity onto the body, especially its energy homeostatic system. The …

National Sleep Foundation's sleep quality recommendations: first report

…, M Mallampalli, G Plazzi, R Rawding, FA Scheer… - Sleep health, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives To provide evidence-based recommendations and guidance to the public
regarding indicators of good sleep quality across the life-span. Methods The National Sleep …

Impact of sleep and circadian disruption on energy balance and diabetes: a summary of workshop discussions

…, LJ Ptacek, NM Punjabi, P Sassone-Corsi, FA Scheer… - Sleep, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… Frank Scheer addressed the separate effects of the circadian system, the behavioral cycle
Scheer presented a study that showed that a pharmacological dose of melatonin decreased …

Late dinner impairs glucose tolerance in MTNR1B risk allele carriers: A randomized, cross-over study

J Lopez-Minguez, R Saxena, C Bandín, FA Scheer… - Clinical Nutrition, 2018 - Elsevier
… performed recruitment, laboratory assays and conducted the study, Saxena R: designed the
study, discussed data and wrote the paper; Bandín C performed recruitment, Scheer FA and …

0041 Circadian misalignment increases the desire for food intake in chronic shift workers

J Qian, R Caputo, CJ Morris, W Wang, FA Scheer - Sleep, 2018 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Shift workers face increased risk of obesity and frequently experience misalignment
between their circadian system and behavioral/environmental cycles. While emerging …

Decrease in scale invariance of activity fluctuations with aging and in patients with suprasellar tumors

…, L Pickering, M Klose, K Hu, FA Scheer… - Chronobiology …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Motor activity in healthy young humans displays intrinsic fluctuations that are scale-invariant
over a wide range of time scales (from minutes to hours). Human postmortem and animal …

0208 CIRCADIAN MISALIGNMENT IMPACTS ON HUMAN COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE

…, CJ Morris, FA Scheer - Journal of Sleep and Sleep …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Introduction: Shift work increases the risk for disorders of sleep and human error. Overnight
operations pose a challenge because our circadian biology promotes nocturnal sleep and …

Circadian misalignment increases cardiovascular disease risk factors in humans

…, TE Purvis, K Hu, FAJL Scheer - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Shift work is a risk factor for hypertension, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease. This
increased risk cannot be fully explained by classic risk factors. One of the key features of shift …