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Familial transmission of seasonal changes in sleep and eating function in the general population.
Psychiatry research - 16 Nov 1998
Sasaki T, Sakamoto K, Akaho R, Nakajima T, Takahashi K
Abstract excerpt
Both genetic and environmental factors may be involved in the development of the increased sleep and appetite/body weight during winter, which are observed in seasonal affective disorder (SAD) as well as in normal variants of behavior in the general population. Decreases of these psychosomatic functions are also observed during summer, although the change may be less apparent than the winter changes. We studied...
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