ArticlePolicy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences2023
Human-Centric Lighting Research and Policy in the Melanopsin Age.
Article in Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Human melanopsin (OPN4) gene polymorphisms: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
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- Physiologically-relevant light exposure and light behaviour in Switzerland and Malaysia.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Observational
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- Scoping review of the measurement of care environment factors that impact sleep in the rehabilitation, subacute, and aged care settings.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Review
- Light at night and circadian rhythms: from the perspective of physiological anthropology research.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2024Article
- Reconsidering the spectral distribution of light: Do people perceive watts or photons?Lighting research & technology (London, England : 2001) · 2024Article
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- Designing for sensory adaptation: what you see depends on what you've been looking at - Recommendations, guidelines and standards should reflect this.Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Beyond visual function, specialized light-sensitive retinal circuits involving the photopigment melanopsin drive critical aspects of human physiology and behavior, including sleep-wake rhythms, hormone production, mood, and cognition. Fundamental discoveries of visual neurobiology dating back to the 1990s have given rise to strong interest from the lighting industry in optimizing lighting to benefit health. Consequently, evidence-based recommendations, regulations, and policies need to translate current knowledge of neurobiology into practice. Here, reviewing recent advances in understanding of NIF circuits in humans leads to proposed strategies to optimize electric lighting. Highlighted knowledge gaps must be addressed urgently, as well as the challenge of developing personalized, adaptive NIF lighting interventions accounting for complex individual differences in physiology, behavior, and environment. Finally, lighting equity issues appear in the context of marginalized groups, who have traditionally been underserved in research on both fundamental visual processes and applied lighting. Biologically optimal light is a fundamental environmental right.
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