Phototherapy is designed to trigger activation of biological pathways far away from the very tissue that's being illuminated. The si lab and other labs are really starting to explore the full range of variables that can impact oscillations within the brain and their downstream consequences. It calls to mind the same sorts of mechanisms that we were talking about earlier, where illumination of the skin with u v b light is setting off an enormous number of different cascades in different organs and tissues.

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