Light visor treatment for jet lag after westward travel across six time zones

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 953-963

  Boulos, Ziad ^a   Macchi, M Mila ^a   Stürchler, Matius P ^a   Stewart, Karen T ^a   Brainard, George C ^a   Suhner, Andrea ^a   Wallace, Gordon ^a   Steffen, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraphy; Jet lag; Light treatment; Light visor; Melatonin; Performance; Sleep

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JET LAG; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOTHERAPY; REACTION TIME; RED LIGHT; SLEEP PATTERN; TRAVEL; WHITE LIGHT;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; JET LAG SYNDROME; MALE; MELATONIN; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SALIVA; SLEEP STAGES;

PRENANTHELLA EXIGUA;

EID: 0036787805     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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