A bright light goes out

Bright Storage of Light

What goes in must come out!

" Does the pretty-boy have any clue what he's getting himself into? " L'ward scoffed. D'zan chuckled and shook his head ruefully. " Doubt it. They have a long tradition of huggy-kissy weyrlingmasters at Fort. Remember, B'loren came from there. " It was noontime, and weyrling classes and drills had been dismissed for the lunch hour. The two old friends headed for the Weyrling Complex Hall and th...

Bright light for nonseasonal depression?

A 58-year-old man’s condition was stable on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) after 3 major depressive episodes in 10 years. He disliked the idea of taking a drug for a long time and at one point took himself off the SSRI and started taking St. John’s wort. However, the reappearance of symptoms of depression soon led him to go back on the SSRI. As discussed in previous columns, on...

Bright Light from Dark Matter

Intermittent Episodes of Bright Light Suppress Myopia in the Chicken More than Continuous Bright Light

PURPOSE Bright light has been shown a powerful inhibitor of myopia development in animal models. We studied which temporal patterns of bright light are the most potent in suppressing deprivation myopia in chickens. METHODS Eight-day-old chickens wore diffusers over one eye to induce deprivation myopia. A reference group (n = 8) was kept under office-like illuminance (500 lux) at a 10:14 light...