Out-of-sync body clock causes more woes than sleepiness
Bayesian math describes conflicts leading to maladies labeled ‘circadian-time sickness’
When the body’s internal sense of time doesn’t match up with outside cues, people can suffer, and not just from a lack of sleep.
Such ailments are similar in a way to motion sickness — the queasiness caused when body sensations of movement don’t match the external world. So scientists propose calling time-related troubles, which can afflict time-zone hoppers and people who work at night, “circadian-time sickness.” This malady can be described, these scientists say, with a certain type of math.