Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Theodor-Boveri-Institut für Biowissenschaften, Neurobiologie und Genetik, Biocentre Am Hubland, Würzburg, Germany.
Bioessays. 2021 Jul;43(7):e2100054. doi: 10.1002/bies.202100054. Epub 2021 May 24.
Recent longitudinal observations show that human menstrual cycles, sleep-wake cycles and manic-depressive cycles can become synchronized with lunar cycles, but do so in uniquely complex and heterogeneous ways that are unlikely to have been detected by past studies. Past studies' negative results have given rise to a scientific consensus that human biology and behavior are unaffected by lunar cycles. The recent observations show that synchrony can be temporary, and can occur with more than one type of lunar cycle, more than one phase of a lunar cycle and more than one resonant frequency of a lunar cycle. Given the variability of human responses to lunar cycles, aggregate analyses used in almost all previous studies would likely have cancelled out individuals' responses and led to false negative results. In light of these observations, the question of lunar influence should be investigated further, with longitudinal observations and case-by-case analyses of individuals' data.
最近的纵向观察表明，人类的月经周期、睡眠-觉醒周期和躁狂-抑郁周期可以与月相同步，但这种同步是以独特而复杂的方式发生的，过去的研究很可能没有检测到。过去的研究结果为科学界的共识提供了依据，即人类的生物和行为不受月相的影响。最近的观察表明，同步可能是暂时的，可能与不止一种月相、月相的不止一个阶段和月相的不止一个共振频率有关。鉴于人类对月相的反应存在可变性，几乎所有以前研究中使用的汇总分析都可能消除了个体的反应，导致假阴性结果。鉴于这些观察结果，应该进一步调查月球影响的问题，进行纵向观察，并对个体数据进行个案分析。
