Light therapy is exposure to a light source that’s brighter than typical indoor light, but not as bright as direct sunlight. It involves using a light box for a specific length of time and at ...
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 trials suggests.
Light box therapy is commonly used to ease seasonal depression A review of the available data suggests the therapy might help curb other major forms of depression The therapy is much cheaper than ...
Advertisement In the analysis, bright-light therapy consisted of using a fluorescent light box that produced white light for at least 30 minutes. The common brightness range was 10,000 lux ...