Challenging the Tendency to Oversleep: A Strategy for Confronting Chronic Depression
Chronic depression is a common and disabling disorder that is often resistant to standard antidepressant treatment. Many patients with chronic depression have a strong...
Consensus recommendations for optimum indoor lighting
CET is pleased to relay an announcement from our colleagues at the non-profit Good Light Group, based in Eindhoven,...
Blue Blockers to Treat Mania
Just as seasonal and non-seasonal depression can be treated with light therapy, mania and hypomania can be treated with darkness....
Realizing the Promise of Chronotherapy: First Priority, Full-Scale Clinical Trials
In 2014, Thomas Insel, MD, then Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, wrote that “ketamine, given intravenously, might be the most...
How to use light to ease the burden of restless nights and listless days
Restless nights, filled with unrewarding sleep, are experienced by at least one third of the population. About ten percent suffer so severely for long...
Triple chronotherapy succeeds with home treatment for major depression
The experts who provide CET with clinical updates have the most experience with light therapy, particularly for SAD. However, light...
Do Circadian-Modifying Treatments Work for Bipolar Disorders? What the Evidence Shows
The Center for Environmental Therapeutics is dedicated to the promotion of non-pharmacologic, natural treatments, many of which are thought to act on our biological...
What are the boundaries of environmental therapeutics?
I am relatively new to environmental therapeutics and wanted to consider the boundaries of our discipline. It is defined on the home...
When Should I Take My Blood Pressure Medication?
In recent years, the development of easy-to-use devices to continuously monitor blood pressure over 24 hours demonstrated that not only do blood pressure (BP)...
Illuminating progress: Novel guidelines for documenting and reporting light interventions in basic and clinical research
In the fast-changing landscape of scientific research, standardization and increasing the useability of data are becoming increasingly important. Understanding the nuances of non-visual responses...
