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Emotion Processing in Brain Is Influenced by Color of Ambient Light,
Study Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025151507.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2010) — We are all aware that a bright day may
lift our mood. However the brain mechanisms involved in such effects
of light are largely unknown.
Researchers at the Cyclotron Research Centre (University of Liege),
Geneva Center for Neuroscience and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
(University of Geneva), and Surrey Sleep Research Centre (University
of Surrey) investigated the immediate effect of light, and of its
color composition, on emotion brain processing using functional
magnetic resonance imaging. The results of their study, published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the colour
of light influences the way the brain processes emotional stimuli.
Brain activity of healthy volunteers was recorded while they listened
to "angry voices" and "neutral voices" and were exposed to blue or
green light. Blue light not only increased responses to emotional
stimuli in the "voice area" of the brain and in the hippocampus, which
is important for memory processes, but also led to a tighter
interaction between the voice area, the amygdala, which is a key area
in emotion regulation, and the hypothalamus, which is essential for
biological rhythms regulation by light. This demonstrates that the
functional organisation of the brain was affected by blue light.
The acute effects of ambient light on emotional processing might
differ from its longer-lasting effects on mood, but the present
findings in healthy subjects have important implications for our
understanding of the mechanisms by which changes in lighting
environment could improves mood, not only in mood disorders using
light therapy, but also in our day to day life, by paying more
attention to our light environment at home and in the work place.
Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice,
diagnosis or treatment.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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