Mental Health

MelaGen® boosting moods, promoting sleep and improving mental health.

Modern life often disrupts our natural body clocks, leaving many of us in a state similar to perpetual jet lag. Poor lighting, especially the kind that lacks variation over the day or remains overly blue-enriched after dark, makes people more vulnerable to mood disturbances, anxiety, emotional reactivity and difficulty self-regulating. Sleep deprivation weakens the connection between our brain’s emotion-regulation centres and processing centres, increasing irritability, reducing trust in social interactions, and undermining calm decision-making and focus.

We designed MelaGen® to address these challenges by restoring healthy, natural light cues. Our lighting shifts from blue-enriched tones during active daytime hours to warmer, blue-depleted tones as evening approaches, helping the brain understand when to be alert and when to wind down. This rhythm supports better sleep, reduces emotional volatility, improves concentration and lessens impulsivity, all of which contribute to more stable mood and enhanced mental resilience.

For people experiencing stress, anxiety or depression, MelaGen® offers a lifeline through light that soothes and stabilises. By improving sleep quality, we support better self-regulation; by reducing emotional reactivity, we help improve relationships and social interactions. For everyone, the result is greater consistency in mood, sharper concentration, more positive engagement and an overall improvement in wellbeing.

Research

View the latest research on light in health facilities below:
Emerging Science

Blue light influences negative thoughts of self

MelaGen Active changes how we think of ourselves resulting in a more positive bias With MelaGen Active the subjects were 1.24x more likely to reject ...
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Emerging Science

Blue light exposure influences your amygdala

Exposure to Blue Wavelength Light Is Associated With Increases in Bidirectional Amygdala-DLPFC Connectivity at Rest Source: Frontier in Neurology DLPFC (Dorsolateral PFC) Region in the ...
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Emerging Science

Impact of SSRIs (antidepressants) on light sensitivity and sleep

The SSRI citalopram increases the sensitivity of the human circadian system to light to an acute dose   Release of Melatonin (Melatonin Onset) Healthy sleeper, ...
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Emerging Science

How light exposure can affect your mental health

Scientific finding: Low daytime light and bright night-time light are associated with psychiatric disorders: an objective light study in >85,000 UK Biobank participants Source: medRxiv ...
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Emerging Science

Impact of inadequate sleep on the brain & emotions

Blood flow changes in the brain due to fatigue During sleep restriction there is reduced functional connectivity between the emotion regulation centre and the emotion ...
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Case Study

How blue light shapes the way we think about ourselves

We often think of light as something that helps us see. But research is showing it does far more, it can influence how we feel ...
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