Home lighting before usual bedtime impacts circadian timing: A field study

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 723-726

  Burgess, Helen J ^a   Molina, Thomas A ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899950168     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/php.12241     Document Type: Article

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