Commentary: Melanopsin Regulates Both Sleep-Promoting and Arousal-Promoting Responses to Light

Melanopsin Regulates Both Sleep-Promoting and Arousal-Promoting Responses to Light

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Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness

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Acute exposure to evening blue-enriched light impacts on human sleep

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Sleep State Switching

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Melanopsin as a Sleep Modulator: Circadian Gating of the Direct Effects of Light on Sleep and Altered Sleep Homeostasis in Opn4−/− Mice

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