Light, rhythms, Alzheimer’s disease and a bit of Milan ☀️ 👁️🧠 🇮🇹
Great #SLRCH2026 meeting: Arianna presented her PhD project on altered light-perception circuits in mouse models of AD, while I shared the human side of the story.
#CircadianRhythms #Light #Sleep #AlzheimersDisease #Neuroscience #ipRGCs

Maydel Fernandez-Alonso receives this year’s Early Career Investigator (ECI) award and delivered the ECI keynote on how the human central clock integrates binocular light input #slrch2026 #eci #light

SLRCH president Corrado Garbazza reviews the year's activities and future directions of our society #slrch2026 #light #science

@alishaguyett.bsky.social reviews this year's advances in clinical science, highlighting new findings on applications of time-restricted eating and novel biomarkers of circadian phase #slrch2026 #light #science

Resshaya Roobini Murukesu reviews this year's findings from translational science, highlighting contributions from big data and wearables and associations between real-world light exposure and health outcomes #slrch2026 #light #science

Beatriz Bano-Otalora reviews the year's highlights from basic science, including insights learned from diurnal rodent models and the role of light in pathways beyond circadian regulation #slrch2026 #light #science

@rebecca-cox.bsky.social explains how later and irregular-timed maternal light exposure in early pregnancy is associated with lower diurnal melatonin amps and higher odds of small-for-gestational age births #slrch2026 #light #pregnancy

@delaineywescott.bsky.social shows that ‘wanting’ and ‘liking’ facets of reward show diurnal rhythmicity in adolescents similar to in adults #slrch2026 #diurnalrhythmicity

Valentina Fazio indicates that bright light therapy may benefit cognitive-affective processing among those with depression #slrch2026 #lighttherapy

Emma Viser highlights the potential of mathematical models to disentangle physiological and behavioral contributions to naturalistic sleep #slrch2026 #mathematicalmodelling #sleep

Federica Bozza presents her work showing that the CLOCK 3111T/C polymorphism moderates the relationship between early-life stress and white matter microstructure in bipolar disorder #slrch2026 #circadian #bipolardisorder

Eva Winnebeck presents data showing how social context influences sleep timing #slrch2026 #sleep #circadian

Eder Zavala presents on the utility of mathematical models of neuroendocrine rhythms for chronotherapy #slrch2026 #circadian #rhythms #wearables

Timo Partonen presents on new strategies for delivering light therapy #slrch2026 #light #mood

A wonderful talk by our keynote speaker and all round SLRCH legend, Marijke Gordijn! #slrch2026 #circadianrhythms #light

Taisuke Eto shows age-related differences in lens transmittance and pupil size #slrch2026 #light #circadianhealth

Ryan Logan discusses circadian disruption in opioid use disorder #slrch2026 #circadian #addiction

Sarah England describes links between sleep irregularity and preterm birth #slrch2026 #sleep #maternalhealth

Lidia Fortaner Uyá explores neural habituation and its relationship with chronotherapies in bipolar disorder #slrch2026 #bipolardisorder #chronotherapy

Shadab Rahman reports on his team’s research showing that nighttime vasomotor symptoms are associated with greater artificial light at night #slrch2026 #sleep #circadianrhythms #light