Illuminating a path from light to depression

TA LeGates, MD Kvarta - Nature Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
TA LeGates, MD Kvarta
Nature Neuroscience, 2020nature.com
Our light environment can strongly influence our mental health. Kai An and colleagues
dissect the neuronal circuit mediating depression-related behaviors induced by mistimed
light input in mice, implicating the nucleus accumbens as the downstream target of the
neural pathway between intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and the
perihabenular nucleus.
Our light environment can strongly influence our mental health. Kai An and colleagues dissect the neuronal circuit mediating depression-related behaviors induced by mistimed light input in mice, implicating the nucleus accumbens as the downstream target of the neural pathway between intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and the perihabenular nucleus.
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