The lighting environment, its metrology, and non-visual responses

LJM Schlangen, LLA Price - Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
International standard CIE S 026: 2018 provides lighting professionals and field researchers
in chronobiology with a method to characterize light exposures with respect to non-visual …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring and using light in the melanopsin age

RJ Lucas, SN Peirson, DM Berson, TM Brown… - Trends in …, 2014 - cell.com
Light is a potent stimulus for regulating circadian, hormonal, and behavioral systems. In
addition, light therapy is effective for certain affective disorders, sleep problems, and …

Melanopic illuminance defines the magnitude of human circadian light responses under a wide range of conditions

TM Brown - Journal of pineal research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ocular light drives a range of nonvisual responses in humans including suppression of
melatonin secretion and circadian phase resetting. These responses are driven by …

Unified framework to evaluate non-visual spectral effectiveness of light for human health

ML Ámundadóttir, SW Lockley… - Lighting Research & …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The discovery of a novel non-rod, non-cone photoreceptor in the mammalian eye that
mediates a range of 'non-visual'responses to light has required reexamination of how …

A review of human physiological responses to light: implications for the development of integrative lighting solutions

C Vetter, PM Pattison, K Houser, M Herf, AJK Phillips… - Leukos, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Architectural lighting has potent biological effects but applied lighting practices that
capitalize on this potential have been limited. In this review, we endeavor to consolidate and …

Dynamics of non-visual responses in humans: As fast as lightning?

AS Prayag, S Jost, P Avouac, D Dumortier… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The eye drives non-visual (NV) responses to light, including circadian resetting, pupillary
reflex and alerting effects. Initially thought to depend on melanopsin-expressing retinal …

Applying melanopic lux to measure biological light effects on melatonin suppression and subjective sleepiness

C Nowozin, A Wahnschaffe… - Current Alzheimer …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Objective: At the beginning of this century, a novel photopigment, melanopsin, was
discovered in a sub-class of retinal ganglion cells and its action spectrum was described …

Recommendations for healthy daytime, evening, and night-time indoor light exposure

T Brown, G Brainard, C Cajochen, C Czeisler, J Hanifin… - 2020 - preprints.org
Ocular light exposure has important influences on human health and well-being through
modulation of circadian rhythms and sleep, as well as neuroendocrine and cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults

TM Brown, GC Brainard, C Cajochen, CA Czeisler… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Ocular light exposure has important influences on human health and well-being through
modulation of circadian rhythms and sleep, as well as neuroendocrine and cognitive …

The emerging roles of melanopsin in behavioral adaptation to light

M Hatori, S Panda - Trends in molecular medicine, 2010 - cell.com
The adaptation of behavior and physiology to changes in the ambient light level is of crucial
importance to life. These adaptations include the light modulation of neuroendocrine …