If you’ve ever noticed how your mood lifts on a sunny morning or how gloomy days can make you feel dull, you already ...

As daylight diminishes, people can feel their mood dimming. In fact, millions of U.S. adults experience seasonal affective ...

Major depressive disorder is a debilitating condition that impacts around 5% of adults worldwide. While doctors commonly prescribe antidepressants to patients, it has several side effects and might ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) --Bright-light therapy offers major advantages as an addition to treatment with antidepressants for non-seasonal depressive disorders, a new analysis of 11 randomized clinical ...

Light therapy involves spending 20-30 minutes a day in front of a light box, which can help regulate happiness hormones like ...

Bright light therapy is commonly used to teat seasonal depression, but new research suggests it can help other types of depression, too. The researchers analyzed data from randomized clinical trials ...

Bright light therapy, a standard treatment for seasonal depression, may also help people who experience depression year-round, a study shows. Researchers found that patients with non-seasonal ...

Bright light therapy, widely understood to be an effective treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), can also be helpful in treating other types of depression, finds a new meta-analysis ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland — Bright light therapy may improve sleep and aid recovery after mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), new research hints. In a small study of patients with mild TBI, researchers saw ...

Since the 1980's bright light has been used as an effective therapy for depressive and circadian rhythm disorders. Given at the right time of day, bright light can help those with seasonal depression ...

Another study, which used a combination approach to treat major depression, randomly assigned 50 patients to venlafaxine alone or venlafaxine plus BLT daily for 8 weeks. 6 Both groups had significant ...