Light therapy (phototherapy) for many types of depression may have fewer and milder side effects and work more quickly than traditional depression treatments. Talk with a doctor before use.

A non-pharmacological solution that could effectively treat depressive disorders is bright light therapy. Patients with non-seasonal depression who were treated with bright light therapy reported ...

Bright light therapy, widely understood to be an effective treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), can also be helpful in treating other types of depression, finds a new meta-analysis ...

Bright light therapy, a standard treatment for seasonal depression, may also help people who experience depression year-round, a study shows. Researchers found that patients with non-seasonal ...

Bright light therapy improves remission and response rates in nonseasonal depression, enhances antidepressant effectiveness, ...

Objectives Approximately 11%–13% of pregnant women suffer from depression. Bright light therapy (BLT) is a promising treatment, combining direct availability, sufficient efficacy, low costs and high ...

Bright light therapy, which is sometimes used to treat seasonal affective disorders, also works for people with other types of depression, a new analysis has found. An estimated 40 per cent of ...

If you think you may be suffering from SAD or depression, seek help from a psychiatrist. And since light therapy could cause negative side effects for some people with other mental illnesses ...

Therapy is just as “real” a treatment for depression as medication. It produces long-lasting changes in brain function that show up in brain imaging studies. It changes patters of connectivity ...