How to know if you have seasonal affective disorder, with Kelly Rohan, PhD It's a disorder that in my opinion happens on a continuum, where Seasonal Affective Disorder is the extreme variant clinical depression that's fully impairing Most people at a high latitude are going to have some symptoms It's just a question of how many and how bad, how impairing are those symptoms?
Promising new treatments for SAD Light therapy improves symptoms in about half of seasonal affective disorder patients Emerging research suggests that other modalities may help too
February 2006 | Monitor on Psychology In the February 2006 Monitor: Asian-American psychologists and clients; culture and cognition; culture and identity; seasonal affective disorder; integrating drug treatment into national health programs; and Alaska Native psychology students
Learning to embrace winter So seasonal affective disorder is defined in the DSM-5, the diagnostic and statistical manual for diagnosing mental disorders, as a subtype of clinical depression
When Chronobiology Met Economics: Seasonal Affective Disorder and the . . . Standard economic theory presumes invariant preferences We refute this presumption on chronobiological grounds, documenting the impact of seasonal affective disorder on investors’ demand for initial public offerings (IPOs) We found that seasonal mood substantially influences short- and long-run IPO performance: (a) examining IPO first trading days indicates that, in the short run, stocks
Holiday blues that linger could be warning sign of depression Holiday blues are often temporary and go away once the season ends, but if they linger, it could be a more serious condition such as depression, seasonal affective disorder or anxiety disorders
How heat affects the mind - American Psychological Association (APA) Though seasonal mood problems are mostly associated with winter, there is also a subset of people who struggle with summer-related major depression “It’s understudied,” said Kelly Rohan, PhD, a clinical psychologist at the University of Vermont who studies seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Tips for protecting your mental health this summer It’s possible that some of the mood decline for people who struggle with summer depression comes from socially isolating to avoid the heat, says Kelly Rohan, PhD, a clinical psychologist at the University of Vermont who studies seasonal affective disorder