How does lighting impact on sleep and health? Is it really a big deal? To understand the interaction between lighting, sleep and health we spoke to Assoc Prof Sean Cain, a leading expert in lighting research, from Monash University.
Dr Moira Junge (Health Psychologist) and Dr David Cunnington (Sleep Physician) host the monthly podcast, Sleep Talk - Talking all things sleep.
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Audio Timeline / Chapters:
- 00:00 - 25:00 Theme - Lighting and Sleep
- 25:00 - 26:32 Clinical Tip
- 26:32 - 31:10 Pick of the Month
- 31:10 - 32:50 What's Coming Up?
Next episode: Sleep and Suicide
Links mentioned in the podcast:
- A Prof Sean Cain's Monash University profile
- Research paper on environmental impact of light
- Lighting environment in hospitals
- Editorial on healthy hospital lighting
- Center for Environmental Therapeutics
- WorkAlert
- When Brains Dream - book
- Acupuncture and insomnia - systematic review
- Circadian mechanisms in medicine - New England Journal of Medicine
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