Martin Moore-Ede MD PhD: The Light Doctor

About this episode

Dr. Martin Moore-Ede discusses his expertise on circadian clocks and the impact of electric light on health.

For over 40 years, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has been a leading world expert on circadian clocks and the health problems caused by electric light at night. As a professor at Harvard Medical School (1975 – 1998), he led the team that located the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the biological clock in the human brain that controls the timing of sleep and wake, and showed how it is synchronized by light. Since 2010, he has been the Director of the Circadian Lighting Research Center, which identified the key...

People in this episode

Guest: Martin Moore-Ede

Topics covered

• circadian clocks
• electric light
• health problems
• sleep
• biological clock

Keywords

• Harvard Medical School
• Circadian Lighting Research Center
• suprachiasmatic nucleus

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