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- Title
Responses of Psychological and Physiological Functions to Environmental Light--Part I.
- Authors
Ott, John
- Abstract
The article presents an overview of light research and its effect on plant and animal life. Light energy exerts an influence on human body chemistry as it does through the process of photosynthesis in plants. Much discussion has been on the direct connections between a photo receptor mechanism of the retina and the hypothalamic nuclei. Over the past forty years, observations on plant and animal growth responses to variations in the wavelength distribution of light energy have resulted from taking time-lapse pictures of flowers blooming and plant growth. At the Miami, Florida, Seaquarium, Warren Zeiller, curator, reports curing fish of exophthalmus by subjecting them to treatments of near black ultraviolet identical to that used in the Well of the Sea restaurant. A researcher reported success in rehabilitating some of the toughest psychological criminals by means of horticultural therapy. A reversal occurred in the manufacture of artificial lights with an ever greater distortion of the wavelength energy from that of natural sunlight.
- Subjects
EFFECT of light on plants; SUNSHINE; LIGHT absorption; ANIMAL ecophysiology; GARDEN therapy; ARTIFICIAL light gardening; ULTRAVIOLET radiation; WAVELENGTHS
- Publication
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1968, Vol 1, Issue 5, p298
- ISSN
0022-2194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/002221946800100503