Tohoku University Unveils the Effect of Light Environment on the Brains of Premature Infants.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 23, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Tohoku University This article is Tohoku University in Japan. The same name university in China, 東北大学, is Northeastern University (Shenyang, China). Tohoku University ( in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of Methodist Episcopal Church, founded and renamed 1873, opened 1875 through a gift from Cornelius Vanderbilt. Until 1914 it operated under the auspices of the Methodist Church. annouonced on August 22 the results of a study on how the effect of light environment can disrupt the brain activities of infants and is found to be the cause of the unusual biological clock, sleep-wake cycle in their developmental process. The effect of light environment on infants has been already found in the case of premature infants needing incubators. In the various essential factors such as light, humidity and temperature needed to keep these infants alive, the light environment has been especially noted to have effect on the growth speed of the premature infants. The group observed the growth of newly born mice that has been exposed under bright light environment for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock and discovered that the brain cell of the sleep-wake cycle was severely damaged. They also found out that the disrupted sleep-wake cycle in the young mice can be reset by incorporating appropriate light environment with correct biological rhythm biological rhythm Periodic biological fluctuation in an organism corresponding to and in response to periodic environmental change, such as day and night or high and low tide. and difference in day and night. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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