Relationship between Individual Difference in Melatonin Suppression by Light and Habitual Bedtime
Open Access
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology in Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and Applied Human Science
- Vol. 24 (4), 419-423
- https://doi.org/10.2114/jpa.24.419
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between individual difference in melatonin suppression by exposure to light and habitual bedtime. Seventeen healthy male students (mean age: 22.6±2.4 yr) volunteered to participate in the study. The subjects were exposed to light (1000 lx) for 2 hours from 2 hours before the time of peak salivary melatonin concentration. Two hours after exposure to the light, melatonin suppression had occurred in fifteen subjects. No significant correlation was found between the rate of melatonin suppression and habitual bedtime in the fifteen subjects in whom melatonin suppression occurred. However, the habitual bedtime of the two subjects in whom melatonin suppression did not occur was earlier than that of the other subjects. These results suggest that there are some people with very low sensitivity to light and that this may affect habitual bedtime.Keywords
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