A (blue) light in the dark: Blue light modulates oscillatory alpha activity in the occipital cortex of totally visually blind individuals with intact non-visual photoreception
Gilles Vandewalle, Markus J. van Ackeren, Véronique Daneault, Joseph T. Hull, Geneviève Albouy, Franco Leporé, Julien Doyon, Charles Andrew Czeisler, Marie Dumont, Julie Carrier, Steven W. Lockley, Olivier Collignon
This study shows that blue light modulates alpha rhythm in the occipital cortex of totally blind individuals with non-visual light perception, suggesting ipRGCs influence brain activity beyond vision.
bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2018 · PreprintNeuroscience