My design work for the Columbia University's Clinical Chronobiology and Winter Depression Programs under Dr. Michael Terman led to the development of light diffusion systems for Dawn and Dusk Simulation over sleeping and waking subject and then to lightboxes for suppression of melatonin as it seems to relate to winter blues by improvement of sleep and mood especially due to lack of light in the short winter days. Dr. Terman's group formed the Center for Environmental Therapeutics (CET.org) as a research foundation educating individuals and corporations to change lighting in the home and work space to improve productivity, mood and subsequent sleep.
An even larger problem than seasonal lack of light is the lack of light due to the corporate light deprivation in most workspace cubicles - efficent illumination of a work space is NOT accomplished from the ceiling area - if the window office is still a day or two off in your corporate like consider taking action into your own eyes.
This version of EGO is re-marketed with two special high output 32 Watt 4100K lamps at SphereOne.com, owned by the CET group - so a portion of sales goes back into research.
Ingredients needed:
1 Lowel EGO with 4100K high lux lamps, 120Vac USA, Japan (240Vac version available)
1 Adjustable table top tripod to bring the lower edge of the EGO to slightly below eye level - that is, to mimic the position of the sky if you were outofdoors.
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