EARLY LIGHT TREATMENT CAN PREVENT AN EMERGING WINTER DEPRESSION FROM DEVELOPING INTO A FULL-BLOWN DEPRESSION

被引:27
作者
MEESTERS, Y
JANSEN, JHC
BEERSMA, DGM
BOUHUYS, AL
VANDENHOOFDAKKER, RH
机构
[1] Department of Biological Psychiatry, Academic Hospital Groningen, Groningen
关键词
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; PREVENTION; DEPRESSION; LIGHT THERAPY;
D O I
10.1016/0165-0327(93)90117-3
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
The administration of light at the development of the first signs of a winter depression appears to prevent it from developing into a full-blown depression. Not a single patient from a group of 16 treated this way became severely depressed during the remaining part of the winter season, whereas 5 out of 11 from the non-treated control group did.
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