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2. Bright light therapy used for Seasonal Affective Disorder can ...

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   SAD lamps, or light boxes—which, to be effective, should emit 10,000 lux, the amount of light you’d see on the horizon at sunrise—are widely available in a range of sizes and prices ...

3. Light therapy - Wikipedia

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   Light therapy, also called phototherapy or bright light therapy is the exposure to direct sunlight or artificial light at controlled wavelengths in order to treat a variety of medical disorders, including seasonal affective disorder (SAD), circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, cancers, neonatal jaundice, and skin wound infections.

4. Artificial sunlight - Wikipedia

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   Artificial sunlight is useful in treating and preventing seasonal affective disorder (also known as winter depression, which causes depression symptoms specifically in winter), [3] and delayed sleep phase syndrome, in which the circadian rhythm (the rhythmic alternation between daylight and nighttime behavior and bodily states) is disturbed and the person falls asleep much later than he or she ...

5. Seasonal affective disorder - Wikipedia

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   Winter depression is a common slump in the mood of some inhabitants of most of the Nordic countries. Iceland, however, seems to be an exception. A study of more than 2000 people there found the prevalence of seasonal affective disorder and seasonal changes in anxiety and depression to be unexpectedly low in both sexes. [63]

6. Health effects of sunlight exposure - Wikipedia

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   Most people in the world depend on the sun to get vitamin D, [31] and elderly populations in low UVB countries experience higher rates of cancer. [32] There are not many foods that naturally have vitamin D. [33] Examples are cod liver oil and oily fish. If people cannot get sunlight, then they will need 1,000 IU of vitamin D per day to stay ...

7. Study uncovers some underlying reasons why music therapy ...

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   It also highlights how music therapy could be used more to help people with treatment-resistant depression. “The study provides a deeper understanding of how music engages brain structures ...