Bright light therapy stabilizes the antidepressant effect of partial sleep deprivation

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-21

  Neumeister, Alexander ^a   Goessler, Ralph ^a   Lucht, Michael ^a   Kapitany, Thomas ^a   Bamas, Christian ^a   Kasper, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Depression; Light therapy; Relapse; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0030021591     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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