Poor lighting conditions can reduce quality of life, finds study

Snapshot from the laboratory experiment with mobile eye tracker Credit: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Our eyesight declines with age and poor lighting or strong contrasts between light and dark can limit the ability of older people to react in everyday life, resulting in a negative impact on the sleep-wake-rhythm. As neuroscientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and the University of Basel confirm, this is also due to the diminishing ability of the eye´s pupil to dilate sufficiently. Their results have been published in Read More

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