How does lighting impact on sleep and health? Is it really a big deal? To understand the interaction between lighting, sleep and health we spoke to Assoc Prof Sean Cain, a leading expert in lighting research, from Monash University.

Dr Moira Junge (Health Psychologist) and Dr David Cunnington (Sleep Physician) host the monthly podcast, Sleep Talk - Talking all things sleep.

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Audio Timeline / Chapters:

• 00:00 - 25:00 Theme - Lighting and Sleep


• 25:00 - 26:32 Clinical Tip


• 26:32 - 31:10 Pick of the Month


• 31:10 - 32:50 What's Coming Up?

Next episode: Sleep and Suicide

Links mentioned in the podcast:

• A Prof Sean Cain's Monash University profile


• Research paper on environmental impact of light


• Lighting environment in hospitals


• Editorial on healthy hospital lighting


• Center for Environmental Therapeutics


• WorkAlert


• When Brains Dream - book


• Acupuncture and insomnia - systematic review


• Circadian mechanisms in medicine - New England Journal of Medicine

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