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Anna Wirz-Justice

Anna Wirz-Justice

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92
Citations
31640
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National Ranking
153

Overview

Anna Wirz-Justice is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and is recognized for research primarily within neuroscience and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including endocrine and autonomic systems, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, global and planetary change, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main focus of their research involves circadian rhythm and melatonin, with additional emphasis on the impact of light on environment and health, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, sleep and related disorders, bipolar disorder and treatment, tryptophan and brain disorders, and electromagnetic fields and biological effects.

Their recent publications include:

  • The relevance of daylight for humans (2020, Biochemical Pharmacology)
  • The Role of Daylight for Humans: Gaps in Current Knowledge (2020, Clocks & Sleep)
  • CME: Light Therapy: Why, What, for Whom, How, and When (And a Postscript about Darkness) (2022, Praxis)
  • Sustained remission from perinatal depression after bright light therapy: A pilot randomised, placebo-controlled trial (2022, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)
  • Preliminary evidence that daily light exposure enhances the antibody response to influenza vaccination in patients with dementia (2022, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health)

Frequently collaborating with colleagues such as Mirjam Münch, Christian Cajochen, Debra J. Skene, Corrado Garbazza, and Rolf Goldbach, Anna Wirz-Justice's research contributions are published in venues like bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biochemical Pharmacology, Clocks & Sleep, Praxis, and Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

Best Publications

  • Life between clocks: daily temporal patterns of human chronotypes.

    Till Roenneberg;Anna Wirz-Justice;Martha Merrow

  • The two-process model of sleep regulation: a reappraisal

    Alexander A. Borbély;Serge Daan;Anna Wirz-Justice;Tom Deboer

  • High sensitivity of human melatonin, alertness, thermoregulation, and heart rate to short wavelength light.

    Christian Cajochen;Mirjam Münch;Szymon Kobialka;Kurt Kräuchi

  • Role of Melatonin in the Regulation of Human Circadian Rhythms and Sleep

    C. Cajochen;K. Kräuchi;A. Wirz-Justice

  • A human phase-response curve to light.

    David S. Minors;James M. Waterhouse;Anna Wirz-Justice

  • Evening exposure to a light-emitting diodes (LED)-backlit computer screen affects circadian physiology and cognitive performance

    Christian Cajochen;Sylvia Frey;Doreen Anders;Jakub Späti

  • Phase advance of the circadian sleep-wake cycle as an antidepressant

    TA Wehr;A Wirz-Justice;FK Goodwin;W Duncan

  • Sleep deprivation in Depression : What do we know, where do we go?

    A Wirz-Justice;RH Van den Hoofdakker

  • Warm feet promote the rapid onset of sleep

    Kurt Kräuchi;Christian Cajochen;Esther Werth;Anna Wirz-Justice

  • Power density in theta/alpha frequencies of the waking EEG progressively increases during sustained wakefulness.

    Christian Cajochen;Daniel P. Brunner;Kurt Krauchi;Peter Graw

  • Functional link between distal vasodilation and sleep-onset latency?

    Kurt Kräuchi;Christian Cajochen;Esther Werth;Anna Wirz-Justice

  • Chronotherapeutics (light and wake therapy) in affective disorders.

    Anna Wirz-Justice;Francesco Benedetti;Mathias Berger;Raymond W. Lam

  • Age-related changes in the circadian and homeostatic regulation of human sleep.

    Christian Cajochen;Mirjam Münch;Vera Knoblauch;Katharina Blatter

  • Circadian rhythm mechanisms in affective illness and in antidepressant drug action.

    T. A. Wehr;Anna Wirz-Justice

  • Blue Blocker Glasses as a Countermeasure for Alerting Effects of Evening Light-Emitting Diode Screen Exposure in Male Teenagers

    Stéphanie van der Lely;Silvia Frey;Corrado Garbazza;Anna Wirz-Justice

  • Efficacy of the Novel Antidepressant Agomelatine on the Circadian Rest-Activity Cycle and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized, Double-Blind Comparison With Sertraline

    Siegfried Kasper;Göran Hajak;Katharina Wulff;Witte J G Hoogendijk

  • Encoding Difficulty Promotes Postlearning Changes in Sleep Spindle Activity during Napping

    Christina Schmidt;Philippe Peigneux;Vincenzo Muto;Maja Schenkel

  • Gender and age differences in psychomotor vigilance performance under differential sleep pressure conditions

    Katharina Blatter;Peter Graw;Mirjam Münch;Vera Knoblauch

  • Early evening melatonin and S-20098 advance circadian phase and nocturnal regulation of core body temperature

    K Kräuchi;C Cajochen;D Möri;P Graw

  • Efficacy the novel antidepressant agomelatine on the circadian rest-activity cycle and depressive and anxiety symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder: A randomized, double-blind comparison with sertraline

    S. Kasper;G. Hajak;K. Wulff;J. G. Hoogendijk

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Cajochen
Christian Cajochen University of Basel
Mirjam Münch
Mirjam Münch University of Basel
Francesco Benedetti
Francesco Benedetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Josephine Arendt
Josephine Arendt University of Surrey
Sabina De Geest
Sabina De Geest University of Basel
Esther Werth
Esther Werth University of Zurich
Charlotte E. Remé
Charlotte E. Remé University of Zurich
Thomas A. Wehr
Thomas A. Wehr National Institutes of Health
Josef Flammer
Josef Flammer University of Basel
Anne Eckert
Anne Eckert University of Basel

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