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Letter: Happy contrasts

Published 8 September 2010

From Jeremy Chadwick

You report that depression decreases an individual’s perception of visual contrast (17 July, p 15). Is this a one-way link? Has anyone investigated the effect on depression of using differently coloured or polarised lenses to produce a greater contrast between the visual signals reaching the eyes?

St Kew, Cornwall, UK

Issue no. 2777 published 11 September 2010

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