Chronic artificial blue-enriched white light is an effective countermeasure to delayed circadian phase and neurobehavioral decrements

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Najjar, Raymond P ^a,b,i   Wolf, Luzian ^c   Taillard, Jacques ^d,e   Schlangen, Luc J M ^f   Salam, Alex ^g   Cajochen, Christian ^h   Gronfier, Claude ^a,b  

^a STEM CELL AND BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c Wolf Technologieberatung Object Tracker ^*  (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^g TECHNOPÔLE BREST IROISE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; MELATONIN;

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; GAZE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS; WELLBEING; WHITE LIGHT; WINTER; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ANTARCTICA; LIGHT; SEASON; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; LIGHT; SEASONS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM;

EID: 84904965480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102827     Document Type: Article

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