If you struggle with the winter blues, one common method that many people claim helps to ease the symptoms of SAD is light therapy, which involves sitting in front of a lamp that mimics natural light.

As someone who dreads the annual clock change, I've learned that fighting winter blues isn't just about investing in a light ...

"Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, it's a form of clinical ... cells in our eyes turn the blue wavelength part of the light spectrum into neural signals affecting mood and alertness.

Researcher Kathryn Roecklein at the University of Pittsburgh tested people with and without SAD to see how their eyes reacted to blue light. As a group, people with SAD were less sensitive to blue ...

What causes seasonal affective disorder? Scientists are learning how specialized cells in our eyes turn the blue wavelength part of the light spectrum into neural signals affecting mood and alertness.

If the winter weather is really getting you down, you may be suffering from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), resulting in ...

A lack of sunlight can trigger a particular form of depression called SAD, or seasonal affective disorder. Light therapy and vitamin D supplements can be helpful. We saw a record wet Halloween ...

and some with full-blown seasonal affective disorder (SAD). But the UW scientists are looking at light therapy from another angle. Instead of targeting the blue-light receptor, they used ...

The effects of transcranially administered light are unlikely to be mediated ... and anxiety symptoms in patients suffering from SAD in a randomized, double-blind dose-response study design.

There is also a summer form of SAD, but little is known about it.\ Researchers are discovering how the blue wavelength portion of the light spectrum is converted into neural impulses that impact ...