Lighting Up Our Lives: How Light Influences Our Mental and Physical Health | NCCIH

Lighting Up Our Lives: How Light Influences Our Mental and Physical Health | NCCIH

Lighting Up Our Lives: How Light Influences Our Mental and Physical Health

June 30, 2020 from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET; via Videocast

This lecture will be presented by Helen Burgess, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and codirector of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Natural outdoor light and artificial indoor light can affect our mental and physical health. This is especially relevant in the current times when we are asked to stay home and spend less time outside. Dr. Burgess will examine how light reaches the brain and can alter brain centers that regulate circadian (body clock) timing, sleep, and mood.