About this Research Topic
Frontiers in Network Physiology is delighted to present the ‘Reviews on Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems’ article collection, part of a series of Research Topics reviewing the current status of the field.
Reviews on Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems will publish high-quality scholarly review papers on key topics in network based sleep and circadian system research. It aims to highlight recent advances in the field, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future inquiries. We anticipate the research presented will promote discussion in the Network Physiology community and translate to best practice applications in public and policy settings, as well as stimulating understanding and future research.
Reviews on Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems welcomes full-length or mini review articles, hypothesis and theory papers, perspectives, opinion pieces and general commentaries across the full Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems section scope. Article type guidelines can be found here and new articles will be added to this collection as they are published.
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
• Regulation and dysregulation of rhythmic gene expression in healthy and pathological tissues
• Overt circadian rhythms as the hands of the central circadian pacemaker
• Modelling of the sleep and circadian regulatory systems across physiological levels, over multiple temporal scales, or through the theory of network physiology
• Networks between the central nervous system (CNS) and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) during sleep
• Phenotypes in CNS-ANS interaction networks, that may reflect novel physiology or guide precision sleep and circadian medicine
• Entrainment of the central, periphery, and cells’ clocks
• Entrainment and desynchronization of biological rhythms at different hierarchical levels
• Impact of the biological clocks on homeostatic processes
• Integration of the body clocks from the circadian clock genes to the entrained circadian pacemaker
• Integrity of sleep and circadian regulation in aging and relationship with health outcomes
Reviews on Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems will publish high-quality scholarly review papers on key topics in network based sleep and circadian system research. It aims to highlight recent advances in the field, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future inquiries. We anticipate the research presented will promote discussion in the Network Physiology community and translate to best practice applications in public and policy settings, as well as stimulating understanding and future research.
Reviews on Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems welcomes full-length or mini review articles, hypothesis and theory papers, perspectives, opinion pieces and general commentaries across the full Networks in Sleep and Circadian Systems section scope. Article type guidelines can be found here and new articles will be added to this collection as they are published.
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
• Regulation and dysregulation of rhythmic gene expression in healthy and pathological tissues
• Overt circadian rhythms as the hands of the central circadian pacemaker
• Modelling of the sleep and circadian regulatory systems across physiological levels, over multiple temporal scales, or through the theory of network physiology
• Networks between the central nervous system (CNS) and the autonomic nervous system (ANS) during sleep
• Phenotypes in CNS-ANS interaction networks, that may reflect novel physiology or guide precision sleep and circadian medicine
• Entrainment of the central, periphery, and cells’ clocks
• Entrainment and desynchronization of biological rhythms at different hierarchical levels
• Impact of the biological clocks on homeostatic processes
• Integration of the body clocks from the circadian clock genes to the entrained circadian pacemaker
• Integrity of sleep and circadian regulation in aging and relationship with health outcomes
Keywords: Sleep, networks, coupling, brain, autonomic system, circadian rhythms, central nervous susytem (CNS), autonomic nervous system (ANS), network physiology
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
