About the Authors

Frank A. J. L. Scheer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fscheer@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kenneth P. Wright Jr.

Current address: Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, Department of Integrative Physiology, Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard E. Kronauer

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles A. Czeisler

Affiliation Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Potential competing interests for all authors are fully detailed in the Acknowledgments section.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC RK KW. Performed the experiments: FS KW. Analyzed the data: CC RK FS KW. Wrote the paper: CC FS KW.