Current Insights into Optimal Lighting for Promoting Sleep and Circadian Health: Brighter Days and the Importance of Sunlight in the Built Environment

Fabian Xosé Fernandez

doi:10.2147/NSS.S251712

Current Insights into Optimal Lighting for Promoting Sleep and Circadian Health: Brighter Days and the Importance of Sunlight in the Built Environment

Fabian Xosé Fernandez

Psychology

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Abstract

This perspective considers the possibility that daytime’s intrusion into night made possible by electric lighting may not be as pernicious to sleep and circadian health as the encroachment of nighttime into day wrought by 20th century architectural practices that have left many people estranged from sunlight.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	25-39
Number of pages	15
Journal	Nature and Science of Sleep
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S251712
State	Published - 2022

Keywords

Circadian entrainment
Daylight
Human-centric lighting
Photohistory
Sleep
Sunlight

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Applied Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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Current Insights into Optimal Lighting for Promoting Sleep and Circadian Health: Brighter Days and the Importance of Sunlight in the Built Environment

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