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Optimized office lighting advances melatonin phase and peripheral heat loss prior bedtime

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch, Marta Benedetti, Lenka Maierova

Improving indoor lighting conditions at the workplace has the potential to support proper circadian entrainment of hormonal rhythms, sleep, and well-being. We tested the effects of optimized dynamic daylight and electric lighting on circadian phase of mela ...

Nature Research2022

Impact of dynamic lighting control on light exposure, visual comfort and alertness in office users

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch, Ali Motamed, Marta Benedetti, Lenka Maierova

The lighting environment at indoor workplaces is important not only to provide vision and visual comfort, but also for light's direct influence on human physiology, cognitive performance and mood. The purpose of this ongoing study is to investigate the imp ...

IOP Science2019

Dynamics of Subjective Thermal Comfort and Skin Temperatures Under Self-Selected (Day-) Lighting Conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova

2018

Reinventing daylight

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jan Wienold, Mirjam Münch, Magali Bodart

2017

Diurnal variations of hormonal secretion, alertness and cognition in extreme chronotypes under different lighting conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova

Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior are modulated by external factors such as light or temperature. We studied whether self-selected office lighting during the habitual waking period had a different impact on alertness, cognitive performance and h ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Monitoring and rendering of visual and photo-biological properties of daylight-redirecting systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Mirjam Münch, Apiparn Borisuit, Anothai Thanachareonkit

We previously developed a Camera-Like Light Sensor (CLLS) to record images using a novel High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging vision sensor. The device was equipped with customized filters for adapting the camera’s spectral sensitivity to both photopic and cir ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Pupil responses derived from outer and inner retinal photo reception are normal in patients with hereditary optic neuropathy

Mirjam Münch, Lorette Leon

We compared the pupil responses originating from outer versus inner retinal photoreception between patients with isolated hereditary optic neuropathy (HON, n = 8) and healthy controls (n = 8). Three different testing protocols were used. For the first two ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Different colors of light lead to different adaptation and activation as determined by high-density EEG

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Michael Herzog, Mirjam Münch, Gijs Plomp, Yvonne Evelina Thunell

Light adaptation is crucial for coping with the varying levels of ambient light. Using high-density electroencephalography (EEG), we investigated how adaptation to light of different colors affects brain responsiveness. In a within-subject design, sixteen ...

Elsevier2014

Light and chronobiology: Implications for health and disease

Mirjam Münch

Environmental light synchronizes the primary mammalian biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei, as well as many peripheral clocks in tissues and cells, to the solar 24-hour day. Light is the strongest synchronizing agent (zeitgeber) for the circadia ...

Les Laboratories Servier2012

Effects of prior light exposure on early evening performance, subjective sleepiness, and hormonal secretion

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch, Friedrich Linhart, Apiparn Borisuit

In sighted humans, light intensity, timing, exposure duration, and spectral composition of light are important to entrain the endogenous circadian pacemaker to the 24-h day-night cycle. We tested the impact of two realistic office lighting conditions durin ...

American Psychological Association2012