chronotherapy

American  

[kron-uh-ther-uh-pee, kroh-nuh-] / ˌkrɒn əˈθɛr ə pi, ˌkroʊ nə- /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a treatment for insomnia in which a person's normal cycle of waking and sleeping is altered.

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Etymology

Origin of chronotherapy

First recorded in 1975–80; chrono- + therapy

Example Sentences

"Studies in humans are clearly required. Regarding intense light therapy, chronotherapy and restricted feeding are low-risk strategies that should be tested sooner than later."

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

The growing understanding of circadian rhythms also could offer help through what's known as chronotherapy.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023

These efforts could help to elucidate inconsistencies in clinical trials and make chronotherapy more practicable for doctors and patients alike, Lévi argues.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2018

“Those are the legs required for chronotherapy really to be translated,” she says.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2018

The trial is the first to apply chronotherapy in glioblastoma, and the only current trial in the United States that accounts for the circadian clock in cancer.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2018