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Preliminary evidence that light through the eyelids can suppress melatonin and phase shift dim light melatonin onset

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, May 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Preliminary evidence that light through the eyelids can suppress melatonin and phase shift dim light melatonin onset
Published in
BMC Research Notes, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-5-221
Pubmed ID
22564396
Authors

Mariana G Figueiro, Mark S Rea

Abstract

A previous study reported a method for measuring the spectral transmittance of individual human eyelids. A prototype light mask using narrow-band "green" light (λmax = 527 nm) was used to deliver light through closed eyelids in two within-subjects studies. The first study investigated whether an individual-specific light dose could suppress melatonin by 40% through the closed eyelid without disrupting sleep. The light doses were delivered at three times during the night: 1) beginning (while subjects were awake), 2) middle (during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep), and 3) end (during non-REM sleep). The second study investigated whether two individual-specific light doses expected to suppress melatonin by 30% and 60% and delivered through subjects' closed eyelids before the time of their predicted minimum core body temperature would phase delay the timing of their dim light melatonin onset (DLMO).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 4%
Spain 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 71 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 13%
Other 9 12%
Student > Master 9 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Other 17 22%
Unknown 10 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 8%
Neuroscience 6 8%
Engineering 5 7%
Other 23 30%
Unknown 18 24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 June 2019.
All research outputs
#4,289,331
of 23,508,125 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#639
of 4,300 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,394
of 164,866 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#13
of 64 outputs
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