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A Retinal Ganglion Cell That Can Signal Irradiance Continuously for 10 Hours

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Two Components of Nocturnal Locomotor Suppression by Light

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Rod photoreceptors drive circadian photoentrainment across a wide range of light intensities

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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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Classical and melanopsin photoreception in irradiance detection: negative masking of locomotor activity by light

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

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Hippocampal-dependent learning requires a functional circadian system

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

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Sleep and EEG features in genetic models of Down syndrome

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