FLINDERS University researchers are moving a step closer to discovering how to personalise a sleep regime and readjust the body clock to help treat some types of insomnia, shift work disorder and other forms of body clock disruption such as jetlag.
Led by sleep and respiratory physiologist Prof Peter Catcheside, the researchers are about to begin a three-year study to develop and test a first-of-its-kind personalised body clock tracker to gather data to readjust the body clock in shift workers and those with circadian sleep disorders.
"We want to solve one of the biggest ongoing problems in sleep medicine by devising a practical way to reliably track and treat people with a body clock timing problem," explained Catcheside.
"We will use a range of technology, including heart rate, skin and core body temperature and motion monitors, in combination with physiology and engineering analysis methods, to track the daily core body temperature minimum time.
"This is a key marker of when the body clock is most sensitive to re-timing effects of blue-enriched light.
"By refining and testing a first-of-its-kind combination of high-performance wearable sensor and circadian physiology and engineering-based analysis methods, we will be able to determine someone's individual daily light exposure timing needs for body clock readjustment.
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