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Read about Chronotherapy in the latest issue of Psychiatric News

Read the latest issue from the American Psychiatric Associations Psychiatric News from February 02. 2018 mentioning research with key interest for SLTBR members: Here

Study by Dorothy Sit at NEJM Journal Watch Psychiatry Top 10 list

The study by Sit D. et al : Adjunctive bright light therapy for bipolar depression: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial,”was selected from the NEJM Journal Watch Psychatry on the Top 10 list. It has been attracting a lot of interest from the media: http://alert.psychnews.org/2018/01/ajp-articles-make-nejm-journal-watch.html https://www.jwatch.org/na45650/2017/12/22/nejm-journal-watch-psychiatry-top-stories-2017 https://www.bbrfoundation.org/sites/default/files/2017-top-advancements-breakthroughs.pdf Link to the abstract (see also post […]

Abstract submission deadline is March 15

Accepted submissions will be published in an issue of Neuropsychobiology (Karger, Basel, Switzerland).

Preliminary program for the 30th Annual Meeting in Groningen 2018

Please find the preliminary program for the 30th Annual SLTBR Meeting in Groningen here

Publication on Daylight Research – initiated and sponsored by the Daylight Academy

The Daylight Academy – a VELUX STIFTUNG spin-off – has lead the process of creating a multidisciplinary overview of the concept of daylight and how it influencers ecology, humans, how we can use daylight in the built environment, and as a society: Access the publication here

U.S. News on SAD

Under the heading “Is Seasonal Affective Disorder Different From Depression? Normal Rosenthal explains about Seasonal Affective Disorder. Find the news: here

New exiting study using light in bipolar disorder

Vicepresident of SLTBR Dorothy Sit, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, and collegues published exiting new data in American Journal of Psychiatry: abstract Adjunctive Bright Light Therapy for Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial Dorothy K. Sit, M.D., James McGowan, B.A., Christopher Wiltrout, B.S., Rasim Somer Diler, M.D., John (Jesse) Dills, M.L.S., […]