AMS Associate Professor Cecilia Diniz Behn contributed to a paper recently published in the Journal of Pineal Research.

Diniz Behn and Mines alum Nora Stack PhD ’19 contributed to a new study that showed even slight exposure to light can prompt the critical sleep-promoting hormone melatonin to plummet in preschoolers in the hour before bedtime – potentially disrupting slumber long after the light goes out.

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