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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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Understanding Seasonal
Affective Disorder and Light Therapy
... What is seasonal affective disorder? Seasonal affective disorder is a major (serious) form of depression that occurs at the same time each year. Researchers have identified two types of SAD. The most ...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
What is Seasonal Depression? ... Seasonal depression, often called seasonal affective disorder (SAD), is a depression that occurs each year at the same time, usually starting in fall or winter and ending in spring or early summer. It...
Source: Cleveland Clinic
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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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