Time, sleep and memory: How light affects our physiology and behaviour
Stuart’s research focuses on how the light environment regulates physiology and behaviour. The vertebrate retina contains photoreceptors that mediate the dual tasks of vision and monitoring environmental irradiance (brightness). Environmental light modulates numerous different processes in our bodies, including the circadian clock, sleep/wake timing, pupil constriction, hormone synthesis, heart rate and cognitive performance. The central aims of our work are to understand how light information is transmitted from eye to the brain and the neural and molecular signalling pathways involved. Understanding how light affects our bodies is critical to appreciate how the modern artificial lighting environment may impact upon our health and to determine how we can optimise lighting to the demands of the 24/7 society.
Date:
28 March 2019, 13:00
Venue:
John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details:
Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6
Speaker:
Professor Stuart Peirson (Associate Professor in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Organiser:
Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
events@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Jacqueline Pumphrey
