A controlled trial of the litebook light-emitting diode (LED) light therapy device for treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Desan, Paul H ^a   Weinstein, Andrea J ^a   Michalak, Erin E ^b   Tam, Edwin M ^b   Meesters, Ybe ^c   Ruiter, Martine J ^c   Horn, Edward ^d   Telner, John ^d   Iskandar, Hani ^e   Boivin, Diane B ^e   Lam, Raymond W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Ottawa Health Care Center   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVOUSNESS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA; ADOLESCENT; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548590417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-7-38     Document Type: Article

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