Light and Cognition: Roles for Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and Arousal

Acute alerting effects of light: A systematic literature review

(2018) Jan L. Souman et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Constant Light Desynchronizes Olfactory versus Object and Visuospatial Recognition Memory Performance

(2017) Shu K.E. Tam et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Circuitry of Wakefulness and Sleep

(2017) Thomas E. Scammell et al.   NEURON

Not a single but multiple populations of GABAergic neurons control sleep

(2017) Pierre-Hervé Luppi et al.   SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS

Timing of light exposure affects mood and brain circuits

(2017) T A Bedrosian et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Constant Illumination Induces Alzheimer-Like Damages with Endoplasmic Reticulum Involvement and the Protection of Melatonin

(2017) Zhi-Qun Ling et al.   JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

Glucocorticoids Are Not Responsible for Paradoxical Sleep Deprivation-Induced Memory Impairments

(2017) Paula Ayako Tiba et al.   SLEEP

A Time for Learning and a Time for Sleep: The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Contextual Fear Conditioning at Different Times of the Day

(2017) Roelina Hagewoud et al.   SLEEP

Chemogenetic Activation of Melanopsin Retinal Ganglion Cells Induces Signatures of Arousal and/or Anxiety in Mice

(2016) Nina Milosavljevic et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The functional and clinical significance of the 24-h rhythm of circulating glucocorticoids

(2016) Henrik Oster et al.   ENDOCRINE REVIEWS

Signalling by melanopsin (OPN4) expressing photosensitive retinal ganglion cells

(2016) S Hughes et al.   EYE

The two-process model of sleep regulation: a reappraisal

(2016) Alexander A. Borbély et al.   JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

Circuit-based interrogation of sleep control

(2016) Franz Weber et al.   NATURE

Generalized CNS arousal: An elementary force within the vertebrate nervous system

(2016) D.P. Calderon et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Modulation of recognition memory performance by light requires both melanopsin and classical photoreceptors

(2016) Shu K. E. Tam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Altered Electroencephalographic Activity Associated with Changes in the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle of C57BL/6J Mice in Response to a Photoperiod Shortening

(2016) Stanislav V. Rozov et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

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

(2016) Violetta Pilorz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Dim light at night disturbs the daily sleep-wake cycle in the rat

(2016) Dirk Jan Stenvers et al.   Scientific Reports

Constant light uncovers behavioral effects of a mutation in the schizophrenia risk gene Dtnbp1 in mice

(2015) Sanjeev K. Bhardwaj et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The cost of circadian desynchrony: Evidence, insights and open questions

(2015) Alexander C. West et al.   BIOESSAYS

Impairment of Circadian Rhythms in Peripheral Clocks by Constant Light Is Partially Reversed by Scheduled Feeding or Exercise

(2015) Yutaro Hamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Sleep inertia, sleep homeostatic and circadian influences on higher-order cognitive functions

(2015) Tina M. Burke et al.   JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

Sustained Sleep Fragmentation Induces Sleep Homeostasis in Mice

(2015) Maxime O. Baud et al.   SLEEP

Light exposure before learning improves memory consolidation at night

(2015) Li-Li Shan et al.   Scientific Reports

Stochastic Modeling of Mouse Motor Activity under Deep Brain Stimulation: The Extraction of Arousal Information

(2015) Daniel M. Keenan et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Misaligned feeding impairs memories

(2015) Dawn H Loh et al.   eLife

Sustained Sleep Fragmentation Induces Sleep Homeostasis in Mice

(2015) Maxime O. Baud et al.   SLEEP

Melanopsin-Driven Light Adaptation in Mouse Vision

(2014) Annette E. Allen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

PERIOD1 coordinates hippocampal rhythms and memory processing with daytime

(2014) Oliver Rawashdeh et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Transiently Increasing cAMP Levels Selectively in Hippocampal Excitatory Neurons during Sleep Deprivation Prevents Memory Deficits Caused by Sleep Loss

(2014) R. Havekes et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Light as a central modulator of circadian rhythms, sleep and affect

(2014) Tara A. LeGates et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Sleep deprivation during a specific 3-hour time window post-training impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory

(2014) Toni-Moi Prince et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration

(2014) Giulio Tononi et al.   NEURON

The trouble with circadian clock dysfunction: Multiple deleterious effects on the brain and body

(2014) Erin L. Zelinski et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

NREM and REM Sleep

(2014) Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Light Stimulates the Mouse Adrenal through a Retinohypothalamic Pathway Independent of an Effect on the Clock in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

(2014) Silke Kiessling et al.   PLoS One

Photic memory for executive brain responses

(2014) S. L. Chellappa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Anne-Marie Chang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A circadian gene expression atlas in mammals: Implications for biology and medicine

(2014) Ray Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dysrhythmia in the suprachiasmatic nucleus inhibits memory processing

(2014) F. Fernandez et al.   SCIENCE

Disruption of circadian rhythms due to chronic constant light leads to depressive and anxiety-like behaviors in the rat

(2013) Araceli Tapia-Osorio et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Dim light at night increases depressive-like responses in male C3H/HeNHsd mice

(2013) Laura K. Fonken et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Dim Light at Night Does Not Disrupt Timing or Quality of Sleep in Mice

(2013) Jeremy C. Borniger et al.   CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

The Rodent Hippocampus Is Essential for Nonspatial Object Memory

(2013) Sarah J. Cohen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sleep deprivation and neurobehavioral dynamics

(2013) Mathias Basner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Sleep homeostasis

(2013) Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The acute effects of light on murine sleep during the dark phase: importance of melanopsin for maintenance of light-induced sleep

(2013) Fanuel Muindi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The rhythms of life: what your body clock means to you!

(2013) Russell G. Foster et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detrimental effects of constant light exposure and high-fat diet on circadian energy metabolism and insulin sensitivity

(2013) Claudia P. Coomans et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Light at Night Alters Daily Patterns of Cortisol and Clock Proteins in Female Siberian Hamsters

(2013) T. A. Bedrosian et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Circadian Pacemaking in Cells and Circuits of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

(2013) M. H. Hastings et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Nocturnal Light Exposure Impairs Affective Responses in a Wavelength-Dependent Manner

(2013) T. A. Bedrosian et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sleep and the single neuron: the role of global slow oscillations in individual cell rest

(2013) Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Conversion of short-term to long-term memory in the novel object recognition paradigm

(2013) Shannon J. Moore et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Multiple effects of circadian dysfunction induced by photoperiod shifts: Alterations in context memory and food metabolism in the same subjects

(2013) Robert J. McDonald et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Sleep Loss and the Inflammatory Response in Mice Under Chronic Environmental Circadian Disruption

(2013) Allison J. Brager et al.   PLoS One

Measuring and using light in the melanopsin age

(2013) Robert J. Lucas et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

An old test for new neurons: refining the Morris water maze to study the functional relevance of adult hippocampal neurogenesis

(2013) Alexander Garthe et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

In Vivo Monitoring of Peripheral Circadian Clocks in the Mouse

(2012) Yu Tahara et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Neuroanatomy of the extended circadian rhythm system

(2012) Lawrence P. Morin   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Forced Desynchronization of Activity Rhythms in a Model of Chronic Jet Lag in Mice

(2012) Leandro P. Casiraghi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Dim Nighttime Light Impairs Cognition and Provokes Depressive-Like Responses in a Diurnal Rodent

(2012) Laura K. Fonken et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Disrupted sleep without sleep curtailment induces sleepiness and cognitive dysfunction via the tumor necrosis factor-α pathway

(2012) Vijay Ramesh et al.   Journal of Neuroinflammation

Bidirectional interactions between circadian entrainment and cognitive performance

(2012) H. J. Gritton et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Aberrant light directly impairs mood and learning through melanopsin-expressing neurons

(2012) Tara A. LeGates et al.   NATURE

Complex interaction of circadian and non-circadian effects of light on mood: Shedding new light on an old story

(2012) Kathryn M. Stephenson et al.   SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS

Persistent impairments in hippocampal, dorsal striatal, and prefrontal cortical function following repeated photoperiod shifts in rats

(2012) Erin L. Zelinski et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Circadian and wakefulness-sleep modulation of cognition in humans

(2012) Kenneth P. Wright et al.   Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Bright lighting conditions during testing increase thigmotaxis and impair water maze performance in BALB/c mice

(2011) Yan Huang et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Jet lag and shift work sleep disorders: How to help reset the internal clock

(2011) B. P. KOLLA et al.   CLEVELAND CLINIC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Effects of Light on Cognitive Brain Responses Depend on Circadian Phase and Sleep Homeostasis

(2011) Gilles Vandewalle et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Acute Light Exposure Suppresses Circadian Rhythms in Clock Gene Expression

(2011) Brian P. Grone et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Competitive short-term and long-term memory processes in spatial habituation.

(2011) David J. Sanderson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION

Astrocyte-Derived Adenosine and A1 Receptor Activity Contribute to Sleep Loss-Induced Deficits in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Memory in Mice

(2011) C. Florian et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Spatial and reversal learning in the Morris water maze are largely resistant to six hours of REM sleep deprivation following training

(2011) C. M. Walsh et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Linking neural activity and molecular oscillations in the SCN

(2011) Christopher S. Colwell   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Chronic circadian disturbance by a shortened light-dark cycle increases mortality

(2011) Noheon Park et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Light enhances learned fear

(2011) D. M. Warthen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optogenetic disruption of sleep continuity impairs memory consolidation

(2011) Asya Rolls et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disruption of circadian clocks has ramifications for metabolism, brain, and behavior

(2011) I. N. Karatsoreos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dim light at night provokes depression-like behaviors and reduces CA1 dendritic spine density in female hamsters

(2011) Tracy A. Bedrosian et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Psychobiological allostasis: resistance, resilience and vulnerability

(2011) Ilia N. Karatsoreos et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The Mammalian Circadian Timing System: Organization and Coordination of Central and Peripheral Clocks

(2010) Charna Dibner et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Circadian modulation of interval timing in mice

(2010) Patricia V. Agostino et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Effects of Animal Care Procedures on Plasma Corticosterone Levels in Group-Housed Mice during the Nocturnal Active Phase

(2010) Hiroyuki SAKAKIBARA et al.   EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS

Recognition memory: Material, processes, and substrates

(2010) Malcolm W. Brown et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Acute Effects of Bright Light Exposure on Cortisol Levels

(2010) Christopher M. Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Adrenal glucocorticoids have a key role in circadian resynchronization in a mouse model of jet lag

(2010) Silke Kiessling et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Dysregulation of Inflammatory Responses by Chronic Circadian Disruption

(2010) O. Castanon-Cervantes et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Sleep deprivation impairs contextual fear conditioning and attenuates subsequent behavioural, endocrine and neuronal responses

(2010) ROELINA HAGEWOUD et al.   JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease

(2010) Katharina Wulff et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Effects of a constant light environment on hippocampal neurogenesis and memory in mice

(2010) Aya Fujioka et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Rapid Changes in the Light/Dark Cycle Disrupt Memory of Conditioned Fear in Mice

(2010) Dawn H. Loh et al.   PLoS One

Experimental ‘Jet Lag’ Inhibits Adult Neurogenesis and Produces Long-Term Cognitive Deficits in Female Hamsters

(2010) Erin M. Gibson et al.   PLoS One

Light at night increases body mass by shifting the time of food intake

(2010) L. K. Fonken et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Circadian clocks: genes, sleep, and cognition

(2010) Charalambos P. Kyriacou et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Interactions between cognition and circadian rhythms: Attentional demands modify circadian entrainment.

(2009) Howard J. Gritton et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Influence of light at night on murine anxiety- and depressive-like responses

(2009) Laura K. Fonken et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Circadian Timing of REM Sleep Is Coupled to an Oscillator within the Dorsomedial Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

(2009) Michael L. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sleep deprivation impairs spatial working memory and reduces hippocampal AMPA receptor phosphorylation

(2009) ROELINA HAGEWOUD et al.   JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH

The effects of rapid eye movement sleep deprivation and recovery on spatial reference memory of young rats

(2009) Shenghui Li et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Enhanced long-term and impaired short-term spatial memory in GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit knockout mice: Evidence for a dual-process memory model

(2009) D. J. Sanderson et al.   LEARNING & MEMORY

Sleep deprivation impairs cAMP signalling in the hippocampus

(2009) Christopher G. Vecsey et al.   NATURE

Astrocytic Modulation of Sleep Homeostasis and Cognitive Consequences of Sleep Loss

(2009) Michael M. Halassa et al.   NEURON

Synaptic AMPA Receptor Plasticity and Behavior

(2009) Helmut W. Kessels et al.   NEURON

The role of the basal forebrain adenosine receptors in sleep homeostasis

(2009) Natalia Gass et al.   NEUROREPORT

Dissociation of circadian and light inhibition of melatonin release through forced desynchronization in the rat

(2009) M. D. Schwartz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light as a modulator of cognitive brain function

(2009) Gilles Vandewalle et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

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

(2009) Jessica W. Tsai et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Circadian rhythm disorganization produces profound cardiovascular and renal disease in hamsters

(2008) Tami A. Martino et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Paradoxical sleep deprivation impairs spatial learning and affects membrane excitability and mitochondrial protein in the hippocampus

(2008) Rui-Hua Yang et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Chronic disruption of circadian rhythms impairs hippocampal memory in the rat

(2008) Laura A. Craig et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN

The significance of glucocorticoid pulsatility

(2008) Stafford L. Lightman et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Effect of Constant Light on Prolactin and Corticosterone Rhythms Evaluated Using a Noninvasive Urine Sampling Protocol in the Rat

(2008) B. Claustrat et al.   HORMONE AND METABOLIC RESEARCH

Strong Resetting of the Mammalian Clock by Constant Light Followed by Constant Darkness

(2008) R. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Melanopsin cells are the principal conduits for rod–cone input to non-image-forming vision

(2008) Ali D. Güler et al.   NATURE

The acute light-induction of sleep is mediated by OPN4-based photoreception

(2008) Daniela Lupi et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Circadian oscillation of hippocampal MAPK activity and cAMP: implications for memory persistence

(2008) Kristin L Eckel-Mahan et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Molecular and electrophysiological evidence for net synaptic potentiation in wake and depression in sleep

(2008) Vladyslav V Vyazovskiy et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Dissociation of the circadian rhythm of locomotor activity in a 22 h light–dark cycle impairs passive avoidance but not object recognition memory in rats

(2008) Sebastião Pacheco Duque Neto et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Hippocampal-dependent learning requires a functional circadian system

(2008) N. F. Ruby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rods-cones and melanopsin detect light and dark to modulate sleep independent of image formation

(2008) C. M. Altimus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic consequences of sleep and sleep loss

(2008) Eve Van Cauter et al.   SLEEP MEDICINE