{"id":141796,"date":"2022-07-07T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-discover-brain-pathway-that-helps-to-explain-lights-effect-on-mood"},"modified":"2022-07-07T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:23:58","slug":"researchers-discover-brain-pathway-that-helps-to-explain-lights-effect-on-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-discover-brain-pathway-that-helps-to-explain-lights-effect-on-mood","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover brain pathway that helps to explain light\u2019s effect on mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-brain-pathway-that-helps-to-explain-lights-effect-on-mood3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From changes in daylight across seasons to the artificial lighting choices in workplaces, it\u2019s clear that the quantity and quality of light that a person encounters can significantly impact mood.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists at Brown University think they know why.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study published in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/i>, the research team used functional MRI to reveal how <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/light+intensity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light-intensity<\/a> signals reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>, and how brain structures involved in mood process those signals. The study demonstrated that some regions of the cerebral cortex involved in cognitive processing and mood show sensitivity for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From changes in daylight across seasons to the artificial lighting choices in workplaces, it\u2019s clear that the quantity and quality of light that a person encounters can significantly impact mood. Now, scientists at Brown University think they know why. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141796","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}