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2. Bright light therapy used for Seasonal Affective Disorder can ...

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   Bright light therapy, widely understood to be an effective treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), can also be helpful in treating other types of depression, finds a new meta-analysis ...

3. 5 Happy Lights to Fight Seasonal Affective Disorder - AOL

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   "Light therapy could help roughly 50 percent of people who have SAD." Around 10 to 20 percent of Americans have a mild type of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a form of depression that begins ...

4. Seasonal affective disorder doesn’t mean you have to be SAD ...

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   Light therapy is the go-to treatment for seasonal affective disorder. It involves exposing yourself to a light box with at least 10,000 lux for at least 30 minutes.

5. Light therapy - Wikipedia

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   This led to the closure of a number of clinics offering light therapy in Sweden. [25] A Cochrane review conducted in 2019 states the evidence that light therapy's effectiveness as a treatment for the prevention of seasonal affective disorder is limited, although the risk of adverse effects are minimal. Therefore, the decision to use light ...

6. Seasonal affective disorder - Wikipedia

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   [41] [42] Although light therapy is the leading treatment for seasonal affective disorder, prolonged direct sunlight or artificial lights that don't block the ultraviolet range should be avoided, due to the threat of skin cancer. [43] The evidence base for light therapy as a preventive treatment for seasonal affective disorder is limited. [44]

7. Artificial sunlight - Wikipedia

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   Artificial sunlight is useful in treating and preventing seasonal affective disorder (also known as winter depression, which causes depression symptoms specifically in winter), [3] and delayed sleep phase syndrome, in which the circadian rhythm (the rhythmic alternation between daylight and nighttime behavior and bodily states) is disturbed and the person falls asleep much later than he or she ...