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Overview

Mirjam Münch is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand and specializes in neuroscience with a focus on circadian rhythms, sleep, and the impact of light on physiology. Their research encompasses several subfields including endocrine and autonomic systems, experimental and cognitive psychology, global and planetary change, cognitive neuroscience, and physiology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Mirjam Münch include:

  • "Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults" (2022), published in PLoS Biology
  • "The relevance of daylight for humans" (2020), published in Biochemical Pharmacology
  • "The Role of Daylight for Humans: Gaps in Current Knowledge" (2020), published in Clocks & Sleep
  • "Chronotype Differences in Body Composition, Dietary Intake and Eating Behavior Outcomes: A Scoping Systematic Review" (2022), published in Advances in Nutrition
  • "ENLIGHT: A consensus checklist for reporting laboratory-based studies on the non-visual effects of light in humans" (2023), published in EBioMedicine

Frequent coauthors working alongside Mirjam Münch include:

  • Christian Cajochen
  • Debra J. Skene
  • Charles A. Czeisler
  • Manuel Spitschan
  • Oliver Stefani

Their work is frequently published in journals such as:

  • Sleep Health
  • Clocks & Sleep
  • SLEEP Advances
  • PLoS Biology
  • Biochemical Pharmacology

Best Publications

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

    Christian Cajochen;Mirjam Münch;Szymon Kobialka;Kurt Kräuchi

  • Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults

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  • Sex difference in the near-24-hour intrinsic period of the human circadian timing system

    Jeanne F. Duffy;Sean W. Cain;Anne Marie Chang;Andrew J.K. Phillips

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

    Christian Cajochen;Mirjam Münch;Vera Knoblauch;Katharina Blatter

  • 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

  • High-accuracy determination of internal circadian time from a single blood sample

    Nicole Wittenbrink;Bharath Ananthasubramaniam;Mirjam Münch;Barbara Koller

  • Wavelength-dependent effects of evening light exposure on sleep architecture and sleep EEG power density in men.

    Mirjam Münch;Szymon Kobialka;Roland Steiner;Peter Oelhafen

  • Effects of realistic office daylighting and electric lighting conditions on visual comfort, alertness and mood

    Apiparn Borisuit;Friedrich Linhart;Jean-Louis Scartezzini;Mirjam Münch

  • Evidence that the Lunar Cycle Influences Human Sleep

    Christian Cajochen;Songül Altanay-Ekici;Mirjam Münch;Sylvia Frey

  • Comparison of subjective and objective assessments of sleep in healthy older subjects without sleep complaints

    Deirdre O'donnell;Edward J. Silva;Mirjam Münch;Mirjam Münch;Joseph M. Ronda;Joseph M. Ronda

  • Age-related attenuation of the evening circadian arousal signal in humans

    Mirjam Münch;Vera Knoblauch;Katharina Blatter;Carmen Schröder

  • Evening exposure to blue light stimulates the expression of the clock gene PER2 in humans

    Christian Cajochen;Corinne Jud;Mirjam Münch;Szymon Kobialka

  • The relevance of daylight for humans.

    Anna Wirz-Justice;Debra J. Skene;Mirjam Münch

  • The frontal predominance in human EEG delta activity after sleep loss decreases with age

    Mirjam Münch;Vera Knoblauch;Katharina Blatter;Carmen Schröder

  • The Role of Daylight for Humans: Gaps in Current Knowledge

    Mirjam Münch;Anna Wirz-Justice;Steven A Brown;Thomas Kantermann

  • Subjective well-being is modulated by circadian phase, sleep pressure, age, and gender.

    Angelina Birchler-Pedross;Carmen M. Schröder;Mirjam Münch;Vera Knoblauch

  • Chronotype Differences in Body Composition, Dietary Intake and Eating Behavior Outcomes: A Scoping Systematic Review

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  • Blue-Enriched Morning Light as a Countermeasure to Light at the Wrong Time: Effects on Cognition, Sleepiness, Sleep, and Circadian Phase.

    Mirjam Münch;Claudia Nowozin;Johannes Regente;Frederik Bes

  • Effects of prior light exposure on early evening performance, subjective sleepiness, and hormonal secretion

    Mirjam Münch;Friedrich Linhart;Apiparn Borisuit;Susanne M. Jaeggi

  • Circadian and wake-dependent effects on the pupil light reflex in response to narrow-bandwidth light pulses.

    Mirjam Münch;Lorette Léon;Sylvain V. Crippa;Aki Kawasaki

  • Light Modulation of Human Clocks, Wake, and Sleep.

    Abhishek S Prayag;Mirjam Münch;Daniel Aeschbach;Sarah L Chellappa

  • Light and chronobiology: implications for health and disease.

    Mirjam Münch;Vivien Bromundt

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Cajochen
Christian Cajochen University of Basel
Jeanne F. Duffy
Jeanne F. Duffy Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dieter Kunz
Dieter Kunz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Orfeu M. Buxton
Orfeu M. Buxton Pennsylvania State University
Sarah Laxhmi Chellappa
Sarah Laxhmi Chellappa University of Southampton
Susanne M. Jaeggi
Susanne M. Jaeggi University of California, Irvine
Till Roenneberg
Till Roenneberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dominique J.-F. de Quervain
Dominique J.-F. de Quervain University of Basel
Klaus Opwis
Klaus Opwis University of Basel
Timothy M. Frayling
Timothy M. Frayling University of Geneva

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