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SUBMITTER: Vandewalle G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2984196 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101025 45
Light therapy can be an effective treatment for mood disorders, suggesting that light is able to affect mood state in the long term. As a first step to understand this effect, we hypothesized that light might also acutely influence emotion and tested whether short exposures to light modulate emotional brain responses. During functional magnetic resonance imaging, 17 healthy volunteers listened to emotional and neutral vocal stimuli while being exposed to alternating 40-s periods of blue or green ...[more]