Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience Unit (MPS/TUM/TUMCREATE)

Publications

Articles (2022–now)

Spitschan, M. (2022). Reproducibility in sleep and circadian science systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Sleep Med Rev, 66, 101717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2022.101717

Spitschan, M., Mead, J., Roos, C., Lowis, C., Griffiths, B., Mucur, P., Herf, M., Nam, S., & Veitch, J. A. (2021). luox: validated reference open-access and open-source web platform for calculating and sharing physiologically relevant quantities for light and lighting. Wellcome Open Res, 6, 69. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16595.3

Vidafar, P., & Spitschan, M. (2022). Light on Shedding: A Review of Sex and Menstrual Cycle Differences in the Physiological Effects of Light in Humans. J Biol Rhythms, 7487304221126785. https://doi.org/10.1177/07487304221126785

Blume, C., Niedernhuber, M., Spitschan, M., Slawik, H. C., Meyer, M. P., Bekinschtein, T. A., & Cajochen, C. (2022). Melatonin suppression does not automatically alter sleepiness, vigilance, sensory processing, or sleep. Sleep, 45(11). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsac199

Webler, F. S., Spitschan, M., & Andersen, M. (2022). Towards 'Fourth Paradigm' Spectral Sensing. Sensors (Basel), 22(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062377

Brown, T. M., Brainard, G. C., Cajochen, C., Czeisler, C. A., Hanifin, J. P., Lockley, S. W., Lucas, R. J., Munch, M., O'Hagan, J. B., Peirson, S. N., Price, L. L. A., Roenneberg, T., Schlangen, L. J. M., Skene, D. J., Spitschan, M., Vetter, C., Zee, P. C., & Wright, K. P., Jr. (2022). Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults. PLoS Biol, 20(3), e3001571. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001571

Joyce, D. S., Spitschan, M., & Zeitzer, J. M. (2022). Duration invariance and intensity dependence of the human circadian system phase shifting response to brief light flashes. Proc Biol Sci, 289(1970), 20211943. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1943

Kwasnicka, D., Keller, J., Perski, O., Potthoff, S., Ten Hoor, G. A., Ainsworth, B., Crutzen, R., Dohle, S., van Dongen, A., Heino, M., Henrich, J. F., Knox, L., Konig, L. M., Maltinsky, W., McCallum, C., Nalukwago, J., Neter, E., Nurmi, J., Spitschan, M., . . . Sanderman, R. (2022). White Paper: Open Digital Health - accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment. Health Psychol Rev, 16(4), 475-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2022.2046482

Spitschan, M., Santhi, N., Ahluwalia, A., Fischer, D., Hunt, L., Karp, N. A., Levi, F., Pineda-Torra, I., Vidafar, P., & White, R. (2022). Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research. Elife, 11. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65419

Preprints

Martin, J. T., Boynton, G. M., Baker, D. H., Wade, A. R., & Spitschan, M. (2023). PySilSub: An open-source Python toolbox for implementing the method of silent substitution in vision and non-visual photoreception research. BioRxiv, 2023.03.30.533110. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.30.533110

Spitschan, M., Kervezee, L., Lok, R., McGlashan, E., Najjar, R. P., & the ENLIGHT Consortium. (2023). ENLIGHT Consensus Checklist and Guidelines for reporting laboratory studies on the non-visual effects of light in humans. BioRxiv, 2023.03.17.532785. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.17.532785

Spitschan, M., Vidafar, P., Cain, S. W., Phillips, A., & Lambert, B. C. (2023). Power analysis for human melatonin suppression experiments. BioRxiv, 2023.01.30.526303. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.30.526303

Tir, S., White, R., & Spitschan, M. (2023). Inclusion, reporting and analysis of demographic variables in chronobiology and sleep research. BioRxiv, 2023.03.28.534522. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.28.534522

Schlangen, L., Haque, S., Kalavally, V., Vetter, C., Glickman, G., Smolders, K., & Spitschan, M. (2023). An inventory of human light exposure related behaviour. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2587424/v1

Books (2022–now)

Santhi, N. & Spitschan, M. (Ed). (2022). Progress in Brain Research: Circadian and Visual Neuroscience. Elsevier.