A significant subset of both major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder patients rapidly
(within 24 hours) and robustly improves with the chronotherapeutic intervention of sleep …

Mood disorders are often characterised by alterations in circadian rhythms, sleep
disturbances and seasonal exacerbation. Conversely, chronobiological treatments utilise …

Light therapy'is established worldwide as the treatment of choice for seasonal affective
disorder. It is also successfuly used in nonseasonal depression, as well as for many other …

The Committee on Chronotherapeutics was recently formed by the International Society for
Affective Disorders (ISAD), which has asked us to provide a consensus review of …

Background Clinical psychiatry has always been limited by the lack of objective tests to
substantiate diagnoses and a lack of specific treatments that target underlying …

In humans almost all physiological and behavioural functions occur on a rhythmic basis.
Therefore the possibility that delays, advances or desynchronizations of circadian rhythms …

Background Depressed and anxious patients often combine complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM) therapies with conventional pharmacotherapy to self-treat symptoms. The …

Psychiatric chronotherapeutics is the controlled exposure to environmental stimuli that act
on biological rhythms in order to achieve therapeutic effects in the treatment of psychiatric …

The psychiatric intervention, light therapy, grew from an intensive 25-year research focus on
seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Dosing and timing strategies have been honed to …

Growing clinical evidence in support of the efficacy and safety of sleep deprivation (SD), and
its biological mechanisms of action suggest that this technique can now be included among …