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Evolving applications of light therapy
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Three major chronotherapeutic inventions-light therapy, sleep deprivation (wake therapy) and sleep time displacement (sleep phase advance therapy) are being combined to snap hospitalized patients out of deep depression and maintain long-term improvement.About:
This article is published in Sleep Medicine Reviews.The article was published on 2007-12-01. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dark therapy & Wake therapy.read more
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Physiology of circadian entrainment.
TL;DR: Several aspects of the mechanisms for photic entrainment of mammalian circadian rhythms are covered, including retinal sensitivity to light by means of novel photopigments as well as circadian variations in the retina that contribute to the regulation of retinal physiology.
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Light as a central modulator of circadian rhythms, sleep and affect
TL;DR: This review discusses the indirect and direct influence of light on mood and learning, and provides a model for how light, the circadian clock and sleep interact to influence mood and cognitive functions.
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Alerting effects of light.
TL;DR: Studies from the past two decades are summarized, which have defined and quantified the dose, exposure duration, timing and wavelength of light needed to evoke alerting responses in humans, as well as their temporal relationship to light-induced changes in endocrinological and electrophysiological sequelae of alertness.
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Light as a modulator of cognitive brain function
TL;DR: Recent neuroimaging studies demonstrate that the wavelength, duration and intensity of light exposure modulate brain responses to (non-visual) cognitive tasks and light emerges as an important modulator of brain function and cognition.
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Bright light treatment in elderly patients with nonseasonal major depressive disorder: A randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Ritsaert Lieverse,Eus J.W. Van Someren,M. Nielen,Bernard M. J. Uitdehaag,Jan Smit,Witte J.G. Hoogendijk +5 more
TL;DR: In elderly patients with MDD, BLT improved mood, enhanced sleep efficiency, and increased the upslope melatonin level gradient, and BLT produced continuing improvement in mood and an attenuation of cortisol hyperexcretion after discontinuation of treatment.
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A self-assessment questionnaire to determine morningness-eveningness in human circadian rhythms.
James Horne,Ostberg O +1 more
TL;DR: Although the questionnaire appears to be valid, further evaluation using a wider subject population is required, as sleep habits are an important déterminant of peak time there are other contibutory factors, and these appear to be partly covered by the questionnaire.
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Effectiveness of Adjunctive Antidepressant Treatment for Bipolar Depression
Gary S. Sachs,Andrew A. Nierenberg,Joseph R. Calabrese,Lauren B. Marangell,Stephen R. Wisniewski,Laszlo Gyulai,Edward S. Friedman,Charles L. Bowden,Mark D. Fossey,Michael J. Ostacher,Terence A. Ketter,Jayendra K. Patel,Peter Hauser,Daniel Rapport,James M. Martinez,Michael H. Allen,David J. Miklowitz,Michael W. Otto,Ellen B. Dennehy,Michael E. Thase +19 more
TL;DR: The use of adjunctive, standard antidepressant medication, as compared with the use of mood stabilizers, was not associated with increased efficacy or with increased risk of treatment-emergent affective switch.
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The efficacy of light therapy in the treatment of mood disorders: a review and meta-analysis of the evidence.
Robert N. Golden,Bradley N. Gaynes,R. David Ekstrom,Robert M. Hamer,Frederick M. Jacobsen,Trisha Suppes,Katherine L. Wisner,Charles B. Nemeroff +7 more
TL;DR: This analysis of randomized, controlled trials suggests that bright light treatment and dawn simulation for seasonal affective disorder and bright light for nonseasonal depression are efficacious, with effect sizes equivalent to those in most antidepressant pharmacotherapy trials.
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Light therapy for seasonal and nonseasonal depression: efficacy, protocol, safety, and side effects.
Michael Terman,Jiuan Su Terman +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that light therapy provides a compatible adjunct to antidepressant medication, which can result in accelerated improvement and fewer residual symptoms in patients with SAD.
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Sleep deprivation in Depression : What do we know, where do we go?
TL;DR: The therapeutic effect of SD is postulated to be linked to changes in disturbed circadian- and sleep-wake-dependent phase relationships and concomitant increase of slow-wave-sleep pressure; additionally, SD-induced sleepiness may counteract the hyperarousal state in depression.
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Light therapy for seasonal and nonseasonal depression: efficacy, protocol, safety, and side effects.
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