Abstract
There are many reasons for the lack of sleep in our society that operates 24 h a day, 7 days a week, constantly. The main disturbing factor has been the technological advance of being able to light our evenings artificially. This Chapter analyzes the impact of the lack of sleep in the " 24/7 Society " , principally the disruption of the three ANS physiological programs. Typical examples of a desynchronized ANS are jet lag, shift work and chronodisruption, the metabolic syndrome and mental illnesses being also examples of a desynchronized ANS. The chronobiological aspects of normal and pathological brain aging and cancer are discussed.
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Cardinali, D. P. (2018). Clinical Implications of the Timed Autonomic Nervous System. In Autonomic Nervous System (pp. 313–373). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57571-1_8
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