{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Hartstein LE"],"funding":["Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development","NICHD NIH HHS","National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute","NHLBI NIH HHS","University of Colorado Boulder Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program"],"pagination":["181-193"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11922671"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["40(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Although the sensitivity of the circadian system to the characteristics of light (e.g., biological timing, intensity, duration, spectrum) has been well studied in adults, data in early childhood remain limited. Utilizing a crossover, within-subjects design, we examined differences in the circadian response to evening light exposure at two different correlated color temperatures (CCT) in preschool-aged children. Healthy, good sleeping children (<i>n</i> = 10, 3.0-5.9 years) completed two 10-day protocols. In each protocol, after maintaining a stable sleep schedule for 7 days, a 3-day in-home dim-light circadian assessment was performed. On the first and third evenings of the in-home protocol, dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO) was assessed. On the second evening, children received a 1-h light"],"journal":["Journal of biological rhythms"],"pubmed_title":["The Circadian Response to Evening Light Spectra in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights."],"pmcid":["PMC11922671"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 HD087707","T32 HL149646","F32-HD103390","R01-HD087707","T32-HL149646","F32 HD103393"],"pubmed_authors":["Diniz Behn C","Wright KP","LeBourgeois MK","Hartstein LE","Stowe SR"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The Circadian Response to Evening Light Spectra in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights.","description":"Although the sensitivity of the circadian system to the characteristics of light (e.g., biological timing, intensity, duration, spectrum) has been well studied in adults, data in early childhood remain limited. Utilizing a crossover, within-subjects design, we examined differences in the circadian response to evening light exposure at two different correlated color temperatures (CCT) in preschool-aged children. Healthy, good sleeping children (<i>n</i> = 10, 3.0-5.9 years) completed two 10-day protocols. In each protocol, after maintaining a stable sleep schedule for 7 days, a 3-day in-home dim-light circadian assessment was performed. On the first and third evenings of the in-home protocol, dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO) was assessed. On the second evening, children received a 1-h light","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Apr","modification":"2025-07-05T03:04:14.608Z","creation":"2025-07-05T03:04:14.608Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11922671","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39773135"],"doi":["10.1177/07487304241311652"]}}