Acute exposure to evening blue-enriched light impacts on human sleep

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 573-580

  Chellappa, Sarah L ^a,b   Steiner, Roland ^c   Oelhafen, Peter ^c   Lang, Dieter ^d   Götz, Thomas ^a   Krebs, Julia ^a   Cajochen, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d OSRAM GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Non image forming system; Non rapid eye movement sleep; Polychromatic blue light; Sleep electroencephalographic power density; Slow wave activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP STAGE; WAKEFULNESS; WINTER;

NON-IMAGE-FORMING SYSTEM; NON-RAPID EYE MOVEMENT SLEEP; POLYCHROMATIC BLUE LIGHT; SLEEP ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC POWER DENSITY; SLOW WAVE ACTIVITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884163246     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12050     Document Type: Article

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