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Human phase response curve to a 1 h pulse of bright white lightMelissa A St Hilaire
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Physiol 590:3035-45. 2012..7 h PRC despite representing only 15% of the light exposure duration, consistent with previous studies showing a non-linear duration–response function for the effects of light on circadian resetting...
Short-wavelength light sensitivity of circadian, pupillary, and visual awareness in humans lacking an outer retinaFarhan H Zaidi
Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W6 8RF, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 17:2122-8. 2007....
Alertness, mood and performance rhythm disturbances associated with circadian sleep disorders in the blindSteven W Lockley
School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
J Sleep Res 17:207-16. 2008..Treatment for circadian rhythm disorders should be targeted in normalizing these phase relationships...
Effects of health care provider work hours and sleep deprivation on safety and performanceSteven W Lockley
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:7-18. 2007..To reduce the unacceptably high rate of preventable fatigue-related medical error and injuries among health care workers, the United States must establish and enforce safe work-hour limits...
Visual impairment and circadian rhythm disordersSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Dialogues Clin Neurosci 9:301-14. 2007..Daily melatonin administration, which provides a replacement synchronizing daily "time cue, " is a promising therapeutic strategy, although optimal treatment dose and timing remain to be determined...
Circadian photoreception: spotlight on the brainSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Biol 16:R795-7. 2006..Recent studies have begun to shed light on the areas of the brain that respond to such 'non-visual' photoreception in the human eye...
When policy meets physiology: the challenge of reducing resident work hoursSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 449:116-27. 2006..An evidence-based approach is needed to minimize the well-documented risk that current work hour practices confer on resident health and patient safety while optimizing education and continuity of care...
Short-wavelength sensitivity for the direct effects of light on alertness, vigilance, and the waking electroencephalogram in humansSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sleep 29:161-8. 2006..To assess the wavelength-dependent sensitivity of the acute effects of ocular light exposure on alertness, performance, waking electroencephalogram (EEG), and cortisol...
Timed melatonin treatment for delayed sleep phase syndrome: the importance of knowing circadian phaseSteven W Lockley
Sleep 28:1214-6. 2005
Effective implementation of work-hour limits and systemic improvementsChristopher P Landrigan
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:19-29. 2007..Implementation of evidence-based work-hour limits, scientifically designed work schedules, and infrastructural changes, such as the development of standardized handoff systems, are urgently needed...
High sensitivity of the human circadian melatonin rhythm to resetting by short wavelength lightSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:4502-5. 2003..Thus photopic lux, the standard unit of illuminance, is inappropriate when quantifying the photic drive required to reset the human circadian pacemaker...
The effects of low-dose 0.5-mg melatonin on the free-running circadian rhythms of blind subjectsLisa M Hack
Centre for Chronobiology, School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
J Biol Rhythms 18:420-9. 2003..Optimal treatment with melatonin for this non-24-h sleep disorder should correct the underlying circadian disorder (to entrain the sleep-wake cycle) in addition to improving sleep acutely...
Plasma melatonin rhythms in young and older humans during sleep, sleep deprivation, and wakeJamie M Zeitzer
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Sleep 30:1437-43. 2007..To determine the effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on plasma melatonin concentrations in humans and whether these effects are age-dependent...
Effect of reducing interns' weekly work hours on sleep and attentional failuresSteven W Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 351:1829-37. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Eliminating interns' extended work shifts in an intensive care unit significantly increased sleep and decreased attentional failures during night work hours...
Safety considerations for the use of blue-light blocking glasses in shift-workersSteven W Lockley
J Pineal Res 42:210-1. 2007
Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care unitsChristopher P Landrigan
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 351:1838-48. 2004..Although sleep deprivation has been shown to impair neurobehavioral performance, few studies have measured its effects on medical errors...
The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive careJeffrey M Rothschild
Divisions of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Crit Care Med 33:1694-700. 2005..Although many types of errors were identified, failure to carry out intended treatment correctly was the leading category...
Integration of human sleep-wake regulation and circadian rhythmicityDerk Jan Dijk
Centre for Chronobiology, School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU27XH, United Kingdom
J Appl Physiol 92:852-62. 2002..Recent findings on the physiological and molecular-genetic correlates of circadian sleep disorders suggest that the timing of the sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythms is closely integrated but is, in part, regulated differentially...
Meeting report: the role of environmental lighting and circadian disruption in cancer and other diseasesRichard G Stevens
Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030 6325, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1357-62. 2007..Third are effects of light-induced physiologic disruption on disease occurrence and prognosis, and how prevention and treatment could be improved by application of this knowledge...
Effect of intern's consecutive work hours on safety, medical education and professionalismChristopher P Landrigan
Crit Care 9:528-30; author reply 528-30. 2005
The 3111 Clock gene polymorphism is not associated with sleep and circadian rhythmicity in phenotypically characterized human subjectsDonna L Robilliard
Centre for Chronobiology, School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
J Sleep Res 11:305-12. 2002..No significant difference was observed between the two variants. These results do not support Clock 3111C as a marker for diurnal preference, tau, or delayed sleep phase syndrome in humans...
Research Grants
- TREATMENT OF CIRCADIAN SLEEP DISORDERS WITH BRIGHT LIGHTCHARLES CZEISLER; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Mechanism Underlying the Effects of Blue Light in HumansSTEVEN LOCKLEY; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- TREATMENT OF CIRCADIAN SLEEP DISORDERS WITH BRIGHT LIGHTCHARLES CZEISLER; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- TREATMENT OF CIRCADIAN SLEEP DISORDERS W/BRIGHT LIGHTCHARLES CZEISLER; Fiscal Year: 1993....
- TREATMENT OF CIRCADIAN SLEEP DISORDERS WITH BRIGHT LIGHTCHARLES CZEISLER; Fiscal Year: 1999....
- TREATMENT OF CIRCADIAN SLEEP DISORDERS WITH BRIGHT LIGHTSteven W Lockley; Fiscal Year: 2010....
