Major depressive disorder is a debilitating condition that impacts around 5% of adults worldwide. While doctors commonly prescribe antidepressants to patients, it has several side effects and might ...

Just a half hour a day might boost mood not only for people with seasonal depression, but for those with any kind of depression. Light therapy, long used for seasonal depression, may also work for ...

If you’ve ever noticed how your mood lifts on a sunny morning or how gloomy days can make you feel dull, you already understand a bit about how light affects our minds. Our bodies depend on light not ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) --Bright-light therapy offers major advantages as an addition to treatment with antidepressants for non-seasonal depressive disorders, a new analysis of 11 randomized clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Strategic dosing of bright light and melatonin can “more quickly realign” circadian rhythms and mitigate jet lag ...

Light of different intensities and colors is used in conventional biomedicine and many nonconventional systems of medicine to treat both medical and psychiatric disorders. Diverse mechanisms of action ...