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SUBMITTER: Vandewalle G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5323254 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vandewalle Gilles G Hébert Marc M Beaulieu Catherine C Richard Laurence L Daneault Véronique V Garon Marie-Lou ML Leblanc Jean J Grandjean Didier D Maquet Pierre P Schwartz Sophie S Dumont Marie M Doyon Julien J Carrier Julie J
Biological psychiatry 20110806 10
<h4>Background</h4>Vulnerability to the reduction in natural light associated with fall/winter is generally accepted as the main trigger of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), whereas light therapy is a treatment of choice of the disorder. However, the relationship between exposure to light and mood regulation remains unclear. As compared with green light, blue light was shown to acutely modulate emotion brain processing in healthy individuals. Here, we investigated the impact of light on emotion ...[more]