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Light Therapy in the Workplace: Increase Productivity and Well-being of Your Employees

Poor employee mental health may not be a new workplace issue, but it is more pressing now than ever before. The rate of self-reported work-related stress, depression, or anxiety had shown signs of increasing prior to the coronavirus pandemic, scoring higher still in 2020/21. While all aspects of poor mental health hugely affect the suffering individuals and people close to them, it also can have a negative impact on organizations.

Sleep Research Papers

Research shows how light therapy - particularly bright light - can be used to phase advance (shift earlier) or phase delay (postpone) the time of sleep and waking. This makes it useful for all sorts of sleep disorders such as those explored below.

Seasonal Affective Disorder Research Papers

There is now a huge amount of research to support light therapy as a treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). This is just a selection and includes the benefits of light therapy as well as research into the possible mechanisms behind SAD.

Research Related to Women's Health

Studies with Alzheimer's patients

The common thread in many research papers is that the organic progress of Alzheimer's disease results in damage to a part of the brain - the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) - that controls circadian rhythms.