Light and chronobiology: Implications for health and disease

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 448-453

  Münch, Mirjam ^a   Bromundt, Vivien ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affective disorder; Bright light; Circadian rhythm; Circadian rhythm sleep disorder; Daylight; Entrainment; Indoor lighting; Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC); Light therapy; Zeitgeber

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; MELATONIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGE; ALERTNESS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BLUE LIGHT; BORDERLINE STATE; BULIMIA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; COGNITION; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FATIGUE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NONREM SLEEP; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REM SLEEP; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; VISION; WAKEFULNESS; WELLBEING;

AFFECTIVE DISORDER; BRIGHT LIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; DAYLIGHT; ENTRAINMENT; INDOOR LIGHTING; INTRINSICALLY PHOTOSENSITIVE RETINAL GANGLION CELL (IPRGC); LIGHT THERAPY; ZEITGEBER;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; LIGHT;

EID: 84875851504     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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