Bright light therapy as augmentation of pharmacotherapy for treatment of depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Penders, Thomas M ^a   Stanciu, Cornel N ^a   Schoemann, Alexander M ^b   Ninan, Philip T ^a   Bloch, Richard ^a   Saeed, Sy A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LITHIUM;

AUGMENTATION PHARMACOTHERAPY; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; META ANALYSIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THERAPY EFFECT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; PHOTOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85015350313     PISSN: 15235998     EISSN: 1555211X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.15r01906     Document Type: Review

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