ReviewJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2009
Illuminating rationale and uses for light therapy.
Review in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ocular light exposure interventions for sleep, circadian rhythms, rest-activity cycles, mood, and cognitive function in older adults: An Overview of Cochrane and non-Cochrane Systematic Reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Phototherapy of Alzheimer's Disease: Photostimulation of Brain Lymphatics during Sleep: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Light therapy for improving cognition, activities of daily living, sleep, challenging behaviour, and psychiatric disturbances in dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Effects of chronotype-tailored bright light intervention on post-treatment symptoms and quality of life in breast cancer survivors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Trial
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- REstoring Sleep and Energy using a mulTimodal non-pharmacological intervention in advanced Cancer: A feasibility study (RESET-C).Palliative medicine · 2026Article
- Circadian de(regulation) in physiology: implications for disease and treatment.Genes & development · 2024Review
- Exploring the association between melatonin and nicotine dependence (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2024Review
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- Daily rhythms, light exposure and social jetlag correlate with demographic characteristics and health in a nationally representative survey.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- When Lights Can Breathe: Investigating the Influences of Breathing Lights on Users' Emotion.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Research advances in the study of sleep disorders, circadian rhythm disturbances and Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- "Shedding Light on Light": A Review on the Effects on Mental Health of Exposure to Optical Radiation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Shining the Light on the MotionWatch8 Light Sensor for Sleep and Aging Research: What Can We Measure and What Are We Missing?Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports · 2021Article
- Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders: a Contemporary Review of Neurobiology, Treatment, and Dysregulation in Neurodegenerative Disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2021Review
- Lifestyle Choices and Brain Health.Frontiers in medicine · 2019Review
- Effect of Daylight on Melatonin and Subjective General Health Factors in Elderly People.Iranian journal of public health · 2016Article
- Nonpharmacologic treatments for depression related to reproductive events.Current psychiatry reports · 2014Review
- Basic sleep and circadian science as building blocks for behavioral interventions: a translational approach for mood disorders.Behavioral neuroscience · 2014Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Light therapy is increasingly applied in a variety of sleep medicine and psychiatric conditions including circadian rhythm sleep disorders, seasonal affective disorder, and dementia. This article reviews the neural underpinnings of circadian neurobiology crucial for understanding the influence of light therapy on brain function, common mood and sleep disorders in which light therapy may be effectively used, and applications of light therapy in clinical practice.
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19968050PMC2670336W1576772196What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.