Author: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT via EurekAlert

  • Do you get the Winter blah's? Light therapy might not be the best treatment.

    A new study to be published online November 5 in the American Journal of Psychiatry casts a shadow on light therapy's status as the gold standard for treating SAD, or seasonal affective disorder. While the treatment was effective at addressing acute episodes of SAD, a SAD-tailored version of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was significantly better at preventing relapse in…