How to pronounce“melanopsin”in English

Melanopsin, as many of you now know is the opsin, it's like a pigment, it absorbs light.

Ring lights can be pretty cost-effective, and yet they're very bright and they have the sort of bright blue light that is going to optimally stimulate those melanopsin ganglion cells. So some people I know will have a blue light or a bright LED on their desk in front of them.

These melanopsin ganglion cells are sometimes also called intrinsically photosensitive cells because they behave like photoreceptors.

These melanopsin ganglion cells have been shown by the Nitz Group, N-I-T-Z, up at University of Washington,

These melanopsin cells and their activation by sunlight, completely subconsciously, unaware, you're unaware of this,

indoors to trigger that melanopsin mechanism if you want to be awake if you want to stay asleep or sleepy then keep them dim and then get outside once the

But those melanopsin and intrinsically photosensitive ganglion cells are also involved in networks within the eye that relate to blood flow, that