Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders: A Clinician's Manual for Light and Wake Therapy

by Anna Wirz-Justice, F. Benedetti, M. Terman, et al.

Book Overview

'Light therapy' is the only treatment in psychiatry that directly evolved out of basic neurobiology research. It is recognized as the treatment of choice for seasonal affective disorder and has been successfully used in nonseasonal depression and other psychiatric or neurologic illnesses, including bulimia nervosa and Alzheimer's disease. At the same time, 'wake therapy' is the fastest antidepressant known. Chronotherapeutic combinations of light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3805591209
• ISBN13: 9783805591201
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 10.1"