ZEITGEBER Definition & Meaning

zeitgeber

[ tsahyt-gey-ber ]

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noun

an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism's biological clock.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

First recorded in 1970–75; from German (1954), literally, “time-giver,” on the model of Taktgeber “electronic synchronization device, timer, metronome”

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Back in 1976 Burkhard Pflug, a psychiatrist at the University of Tubingen in Germany, wrote that sleep deprivation might behave like a “zeitgeber,” or “time giver,” in people with depression and resynchronize aberrant brain rhythms.

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The new findings may offer targets for reviving the zeitgeber in depression in accessible ways.

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Light acts as a “zeitgeber,” a natural cue to our bodies’ circadian rhythms.

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Historically, for C. marinus ‘zeitgeber time 0’ is defined as the middle of the dark phase.

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Historically, for C. marinus ‘zeitgeber time 0’ is defined as the middle of the dark phase.

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