Circadian Misalignment: A Biological Basis for Mood Vulnerability in Shift Work
Depression has significant economic impact: According to the World Health Organization, the estimated cost to the global economy is US$1 trillion per year in...
Challenging the Tendency to Oversleep: A Strategy for Confronting Chronic Depression
Chronic depression is a common and disabling disorder that is often resistant to standard antidepressant treatment. Many patients with chronic depression have a strong...
Anxiety in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic
chiDo those COVID-19 lockdowns — which may continue or resume at any time — make you and your kids truly...
Andrea’s Story: Up Close and Personal with an Ionizer
Andrea M, 23, was a graduate student at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. A couple of years earlier, while she was still an undergraduate...
Negative Air Ionization for Environmental Therapeutics
What is negative air ionization?A springtime thunderstorm hits, and as soon as it passes you are eager to go out for a walk. The...
Variations on the SAD Experience
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is operationalized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed., as a subtype of recurrent...
Do Circadian-Modifying Treatments Work for Bipolar Disorders? What the Evidence Shows
The Center for Environmental Therapeutics is dedicated to the promotion of non-pharmacologic, natural treatments, many of which are thought to act on our biological...
The Timing of Sunrise Within U.S. Time Zones . . . and SAD
Shortly before the winter solstice near Basel, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of Dominik Wunderlin, BaselDecember 2020. With the winter...
How does light work?
Light is a powerful antidepressant and is also the most powerful known zeitgeber (time-setter) for the internal biological clocks of the body.
Surprisingly,...
Comprehensive Treatment Strategies for SAD
A review of Defeating SAD: A Guide to Health and Happiness in All Seasons by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D. / Gildan Media, 2023Seasonal Affective...
