Ultradian Rhythms in Life Processes : An Inquiry into Fundamental Principles of Chronobiology and Psychobiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)

I The Molecular-Genetic-Cellular Level.- 1 Intracellular Time Keeping: Epigenetic Oscillations Reveal the Functions of an Ultradian Clock.- 2 Rhythms of Protein Synthesis and Other Circahoralian Oscillations: The Possible Involvement of Fractals.- 3 A Precise Circadian Clock from Chaotic Cell Cycle Oscillations.- 4 Oscillations and Cancer.- 5 Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Ultradian Rhythms in Drosophila.- 6 Do Ultradian Oscillators Underlie the Circadian Clock in Drosophila?.- II The Neuroendocrinal and Developmental Level.- 7 Endocrine Ultradian Rhythms During Sleep and Wakefulness.- 8 A Parsimonious Model of Amplitude and Frequency Modulation of Episodic Hormone Secretory Bursts as a Mechanism for Ultradian Signalling by Endocrine Glands.- 9 Ontogenesis of Human Ultradian Rhythms.- 10 Phase Plots of Temporal Oscillations.- 11 Metabolic and Behavioural Long Period Ultradian Rhythms in Endotherms.- III The Behavioural and Psychosocial Level.- 12 Ultradian Behaviour Cycles in Humans: Developmental and Social Aspects.- 13 Ultradian Cycles in Sleep,Propensity: Or, Kleitman's BRAC Revisited.- 14 The Basic Rest-Activity Cycle - 32 Years Later: An Interview with Nathaniel Kleitman at 96.- 15 The Sleep-Wake Threshold in Human Circadian Rhythms as a Determinant of Ultradian Rhythms.- 16 Reality, Stress and Imagination in Temporal Isolation Experiments: An Interview with Rutger A. Wever.- 17 Human Biological Rhythms: The Search for Ultradians in Movement Activity Behaviour.- 18 The Wave Nature of Being: Ultradian Rhythms and Mind-Body Communication.- 19 Epilogue: The Unification Hypothesis of Chronobiology - Psychobiology from Molecule to Mind.