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Mirjam Münch
Researcher at Massey University
Publications - 84
Citations - 4831
Mirjam Münch is an academic researcher from Massey University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Circadian rhythm & Non-rapid eye movement sleep. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 78 publications receiving 3878 citations. Previous affiliations of Mirjam Münch include Humboldt University of Berlin & Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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High sensitivity of human melatonin, alertness, thermoregulation, and heart rate to short wavelength light.
Christian Cajochen,Mirjam Münch,Szymon Kobialka,Kurt Kräuchi,Roland Steiner,Peter Oelhafen,Selim Orgül,Anna Wirz-Justice +7 more
TL;DR: The findings-that the sensitivity of the human alerting response to light and its thermoregulatory sequelae are blue-shifted relative to the three-cone visual photopic system-indicate an additional role for these novel photoreceptors in modifying human alertness, thermophysiology, and heart rate.
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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,Mirjam Münch,Claude Gronfier,James K. Wyatt,Derk-Jan Dijk,Kenneth P. Wright,Charles A. Czeisler +9 more
TL;DR: The average intrinsic period of the melatonin and temperature rhythms in this population was very close to 24 h, but the intrinsic circadian period observed in women was significantly shorter, which may have implications for understanding sex differences in habitual sleep duration and insomnia prevalence.
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Age-related changes in the circadian and homeostatic regulation of human sleep.
TL;DR: The hypothesis that age-related changes in sleep are due to weaker circadian regulation of sleep and wakefulness is favored and manipulations of the circadian timing system, rather than the sleep homeostat, may offer a potential strategy to alleviate age‐related decrements in sleep and daytime alertness levels.
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Encoding Difficulty Promotes Postlearning Changes in Sleep Spindle Activity during Napping
Christina Schmidt,Philippe Peigneux,Vincenzo Muto,Maja Schenkel,Vera Knoblauch,Mirjam Münch,Dominique J.-F. de Quervain,Anna Wirz-Justice,Christian Cajochen +8 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that, like during nocturnal sleep, daytime sleep EEG oscillations including spindle activity are modified after declarative learning of word pairs, and demonstrate here that the nature of the learning material is a determinant factor for sleep-related alterations after declARative learning.
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Gender and age differences in psychomotor vigilance performance under differential sleep pressure conditions
Katharina Blatter,Peter Graw,Mirjam Münch,Vera Knoblauch,Anna Wirz-Justice,Christian Cajochen +5 more
TL;DR: The gender effect is interpreted as a different strategy in women when performing the PVT, although the instructions to be 'as fast as possible' were identical, which may contribute to attentional failures in extended work shifts and during nighttime work shifts.