Afternoon light: the key for more restful sleep in older adults
Consolidated sleep is vital for both physical and mental well-being. Yet, our ability to maintain uninterrupted nighttime sleep decreases as we age. The sleep-wake pattern...
Bright Light Therapy for Perinatal Depression
Perinatal depression is a type of depression experienced around, during, or shortly after pregnancy. It can affect any woman during any pregnancy or phase...
Bright Light Therapy and Sleep in Women Undergoing Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Annually, there are about 1.6 million new cases of cancer in the United States, of which breast cancer is the most common. Chemotherapy has...
Light boxes as a commodity: what next?
A message to everyone from the Center for Environmental TherapeuticsDepression poses a worldwide risk and burden for an estimated...
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,...
Advertising and writing about light therapy in the media: why are the eyes nearly always closed?
In five minutes of web-browsing for a light therapy lamp, a motif repeats itself — beautiful models (nearly always women) with...
Light Therapy: Its Discovery and Applications
How it all began...Light therapy is one of the most exciting and scientifically interesting developments in medicine today. First, it is one of the...
Light Therapy Provides Major Improvement in Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) presents as problematic when developing effective treatments. In discovering that dopamine was deficient in post-mortem brains of PD patients, one would...
An Ideal Marriage: Basic and Clinical Research in Chronobiology
Researchers studying single-cell blue-green algae or zebra fish, fruit flies or hamsters, often write at the bottom of their grant applications that, “Understanding basic...
How to Select a Light Box
In the best of all possible worlds, every light box on the market should have undergone clinical trials to show its efficacy, and should...
