Human responses to bright light of different durations

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3103-3112

  Chang, Anne Marie ^a,b   Santhi, Nayantara ^a,b,c   St Hilaire, Melissa ^a   Gronfier, Claude ^a,b,d   Bradstreet, Dayna S ^a   Duffy, Jeanne F ^a,b   Lockley, Steven W ^a,b   Kronauer, Richard E ^b,e   Czeisler, Charles A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRIGHT LIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863000137     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.226555     Document Type: Article

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