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Light
12
Dec

How Light Therapy Might Prevent Vision Problems in Preterm Infants

December 12, 2020
Top Breakthrough Discovery | Published April 2019 in Nature Cell Biology After discovering a light-dependent molecular pathway that regulates how blood vessels develop in the eye, scientists at Cincinnati Children’s suggest it may be possible to use light therapy to help preterm infants avoid life-long vision problems. A study in mouse models reveals that normal function of...
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11
Dec

How Light Therapy Might Prevent Vision Problems in Preterm Infants

December 11, 2020
Top Breakthrough Discovery | Published April 2019 in Nature Cell Biology After discovering a light-dependent molecular pathway that regulates how blood vessels develop in the eye, scientists at Cincinnati Children’s suggest it may be possible to use light therapy to help preterm infants avoid life-long vision problems. A study in mouse models reveals that normal function of...
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16
Nov

A New Threat to Dopamine Neurons: The Downside of Artificial Light

November 16, 2020
Neuroscience Volume 432, 15 April 2020, Pages 216-228 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.02.047 Fasciani I, Petragnano F, Aloisi G, Marampon F, Rossi M, Coppolino MF, Rossi R, Longoni B, Scarselli M, Maggio R. A New Threat to Dopamine Neurons: The Downside of Artificial Light. Neuroscience. 2020 Apr 15;432:216-228. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.02.047. Epub 2020 Mar 4. PMID: 32142863. Highlights • Artificial light...
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10
Nov

Evening home lighting adversely impacts the circadian system and sleep

November 10, 2020
Cain, S.W., McGlashan, E.M., Vidafar, P. et al. Evening home lighting adversely impacts the circadian system and sleep. Sci Rep 10, 19110 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75622-4 Abstract The regular rise and fall of the sun resulted in the development of 24-h rhythms in virtually all organisms. In an evolutionary heartbeat, humans have taken control of their light environment with electric light. Humans...
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28
Oct

Photobiomodulation of the Visual System and Human Health

October 28, 2020
Open access article Buch, J.; Hammond, B. Photobiomodulation of the Visual System and Human Health. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 8020. Review Abstract Humans express an expansive and detailed response to wavelength differences within the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. This is most clearly manifest, and most studied, with respect to a relatively small range of electromagnetic radiation that...
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16
Oct

The evening light environment in hospitals can be designed to produce less disruptive effects on the circadian system and improve sleep

October 16, 2020
Daniel Vethe, Jan Scott, Morten Engstrøm, Øyvind Salvesen, Trond Sand, Alexander Olsen, Gunnar Morken, Hanne S Heglum, Kaia Kjørstad, Patrick M Faaland, Cecilie L Vestergaard, Knut Langsrud, Håvard Kallestad, The evening light environment in hospitals can be designed to produce less disruptive effects on the circadian system and improve sleep, Sleep, Volume 44, Issue 3, March...
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20
Sep

Daily and Seasonal Variation in Light Exposure among the Old Order Amish

September 20, 2020
Lee EE, Amritwar A, Hong LE, Mohyuddin I, Brown T, Postolache TT. Daily and Seasonal Variation in Light Exposure among the Old Order Amish. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jun 21;17(12):4460. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124460. PMID: 32575882; PMCID: PMC7344929. Abstract Exposure to artificial bright light in the late evening and early night, common in modern...
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18
Sep

Do men and women have different circadian rhythms?

September 18, 2020
Source: https://sciencenorway.no/biology-gender-and-society-sleep/do-men-and-women-have-different-circadian-rhythms/1742390 New research may provide answers as to why some people tolerate being awake at night better than others. Ida Kvittingen JOURNALIST PUBLISHED Friday 18. september 2020 – 10:58 Staying awake at night and being able to sleep during the day goes against our natural circadian rhythm, but some people cope better than others. Recently, researchers...
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20
Aug

Children’s Health in the Digital Age

August 20, 2020
Dresp-Langley B. Children’s Health in the Digital Age. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17(9):3240. Published 2020 May 6. doi:10.3390/ijerph17093240 Abstract Environmental studies, metabolic research, and state of the art research in neurobiology point towards the reduced amount of natural day and sunlight exposure of the developing child, as a consequence of increasingly long hours spent...
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30
Jul

Association between outdoor light-at-night exposure and colorectal cancer in Spain (MCC-Spain study)

July 30, 2020
Garcia-Saenz A, Sánchez de Miguel A, Espinosa A, et al. Association between outdoor light-at-night exposure and colorectal cancer in Spain (MCC-Spain study) [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 24]. Epidemiology. 2020;10.1097/EDE.0000000000001226. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001226 Abstract Background: Night shift work, exposure to artificial light-at-night and particularly blue light spectrum, and the consequent circadian disruption may increase the risk of...
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