Aberrant light directly impairs mood and learning through melanopsin-expressing neurons

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7425, 2012, Pages 594-598

  Legates, Tara A ^a   Altimus, Cara M ^a   Wang, Hui ^b   Lee, Hey Kyoung ^b   Yang, Sunggu ^b   Zhao, Haiqing ^a   Kirkwood, Alfredo ^b   Weber, E Todd ^c   Hattar, Samer ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; MELANOPSIN;

BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; DRUG; LEARNING; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; NEUROLOGY; RODENT; SOLAR CYCLE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOOD; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SLEEP;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; LEARNING; LIGHT; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; PHOTOPERIOD; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROD OPSINS; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84869863877     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11673     Document Type: Article

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