🧑 Human 🎲 Randomized trial, sham-controlled 👥 223 participants ⌛ single session (stage 1) & two days (stage 2) (see Figure 1) · 2026 · USA (Austin, TX)
Transcranial photobiomodulation improves prefrontal oxygenation and impulse control in adults with ADHD: a randomized controlled trial
Salehpour · BMC Psychiatry · 2026
The protocol this study used
What the authors concluded
Behavioral results from the first stage showed that, within the ADHD group, participants receiving active tPBM exhibited a 51% improvement in correct rejections on the CPT compared to sham, reaching levels comparable to non-ADHD participants (p = 0.017, large effect size of Cohen's d = 0.93)." "These findings suggest that enhancing prefrontal oxygenation via tPBM may strengthen neural networks s
Devices that emit this wavelength
Matched on wavelength within 15nm, since LED bins vary by roughly that much and a tighter match would be false precision. Where we have an irradiance figure, the session length is the time needed to reach this study's dose of 60 J/cm² at that intensity.
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Matching a wavelength is not the same as reproducing a trial. Session times assume the device's published irradiance is accurate at the distance it was measured, which on brand-claim figures is often optimistic. Where a device publishes both a peak and an average we use the average, and where it publishes a falloff curve we use the lowest figure, so these times run long rather than short. Clinical protocols also control for spot size, contact and skin type in ways a home device cannot.
Source
Dosimetry extracted by Vladimir Heiskanen in Photobiomodulation (PBM) research - a comprehensive database. Citation resolved against PubMed.