Short-Wavelength Light Sensitivity of Circadian, Pupillary, and Visual Awareness in Humans Lacking an Outer Retina

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2122-2128

  Zaidi, Farhan H ^a   Hull, Joseph T ^b   Peirson, Stuart N ^c   Wulff, Katharina ^c   Aeschbach, Daniel ^b,d   Gooley, Joshua J ^b,d   Brainard, George C ^e   Gregory Evans, Kevin ^a   Rizzo III, Joseph F ^d   Czeisler, Charles A ^b,d   Foster, Russell G ^c   Moseley, Merrick J ^f   Lockley, Steven W ^b,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL REFLEX; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 37449016355     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.034     Document Type: Article

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