The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
showing that light that arrives to the eyes between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., approximately, suppresses the release of dopamine, this neuromodulator that makes us feel good, and it's sort of an endogenous antidepressant, and can inhibit learning and create all sorts of other detrimental effects
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Viewing any light of bright intensity between the hours of 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM on a consistent basis is going to suppress dopamine, because of the way that that light activates these melanopsin cells, and the habenula, and the dopamine system.