Spectral quality of light modulates emotional brainresponses in humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19549-19554

  Vandewalle, G ^a   Schwartz, S ^b   Grandjean, D ^b   Wuillaume, C ^a   Balteau, E ^a   Degueldre, C ^a   Schabus, M ^a   Phillips, C ^a   Luxen, A ^a   Dijk, D J ^c   Maquet, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion processing; Functional MRI; Hypothalamus; Melanopsin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BLUE LIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 78650613630     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010180107     Document Type: Article

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