Clinical trials: Non-visual Effects of Light, open to volunteers
Sleep Disorders, Neurological Pathologies
Photomotor Reflex to Evaluate the Role of the Non-visual Effects of Light in Neurological, Psychiatric and Ophthalmological Pathologies
The light has visual and non-visual effects on organism and can act on the behavior, the mood, the cognition and the sleep. These effects are mediated by "classical" retina photoreceptors which allow vision (rods, cones) but also…
- Conditions
- Sleep Disorders, Neurological Pathologies, Psychiatric Pathologies, Ophthalmological Pathologies
- Trial name
- NCT03811964
- Testing
- Specific light exposures
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 726 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Non-visual Effects of Light, Chronic Variable Sleep Deficiency
Sleep, Light, Circadian, Central Oxidative Stress
Irregular sleep timing and sleep deficiency are pervasive in society despite evidence that sleep deficiency impairs cognition and is linked to neurodegenerative disease.
- Trial name
- NCT07471126
- Testing
- Chronic Variable Sleep Deficiency, Sleep- and Circadian-Informed Lighting, Dim Light
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Healthy, Bipolar
Examining Lithium's Mechanism in Bipolar Disorder
The primary objective of the current study is to examine the acute effect of lithium on the visual and non-visual responses to light in a sample of healthy participants.
- Trial name
- HELIOS-BD 2 (NCT07750925)
- Testing
- Lithium carbonate (Priadel), Controlled light exposure
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northumbria University