{"id":101381,"date":"2020-01-25T07:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/blue-light-therapy-helps-heal-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-01-25T07:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:43:33","slug":"blue-light-therapy-helps-heal-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/blue-light-therapy-helps-heal-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Blue-Light Therapy Helps Heal the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-light-therapy-helps-heal-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early morning exposure to blue wavelength light can help heal the brain following <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/92095-overview\">mild traumatic brain injury<\/a> (mTBI), new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Results of a small, randomized controlled trial showed blue-light therapy improved brain structure and function, cognition, and sleep in this patient population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that blue-light therapy improved patients\u2019 daytime sleepiness,\u201d study investigator William D. \u2018Scott\u2019 Killgore, PhD, told <em><i>Medscape<\/i> Medical News<\/em>. \u201cSo those who got the blue light were less sleepy 6 weeks later than they had been at baseline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning exposure to blue wavelength light can help heal the brain following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), new research suggests. Results of a small, randomized controlled trial showed blue-light therapy improved brain structure and function, cognition, and sleep in this patient population. \u201cWe found that blue-light therapy improved patients\u2019 daytime sleepiness,\u201d study investigator William [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}