Some EYE CELLS reset our daily clock AND help with SHORT TERM MEMORY

TURN ON BRIGHT LIGHTS to help SHORT TERM MEMORY... neuroscientists have discovered light-sensitive eye cells ‘intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells’ (ipRGCs). They absorb light in order to properly set our circadian clock.

In the decade since then, many studies have suggested that ipRGCs do even more than clock-setting. The latest of these reports, out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that these cells — and the light-sensitive protein they contain, melanopsin — are involved in short-term memory.

from a freelance writer

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/13/how-light-wakes-up-the-brain/