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Seasonal Affective Disorder |
SAD |
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter. SAD is rare, if existent at all in the tropics, but is measurably present at latitudes of 30°N (or S) and higher. Cause Seasonal mood variations are believed to be related mostly to daylight, not temperature. For this reason, SAD is prevalent even in mid-la ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- National Mental Health Association http://www.nmha.org/
- National Institute of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill http://www.nami.org/
- New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH) http://www.noah-health.org
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/
- Google Health https://www.google.com/health
Resources
- Ask NOAH About: Seasonal Affective DisorderFact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Institutes of Health)
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