Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - References

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  1. American Psychiatric Association (2000). Seasonal pattern section of Mood disorders. In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed., text rev., pp. 425–427. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

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  5. Magnusson A, Boivin D (2003). Seasonal affective disorder: An overview. Chronobiology International, 20(2): 189–207.

  6. Lam RW, Levitt AJ (1999). Canadian Consensus Guidelines for the Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Summary of the Report of the Canadian Consensus Group on SAD. Vancouver, BC: Clinical and Academic Publishers. Also available online: http://www.psychdirect.com/depression/d-treatmentguidelinesSAD.htm.

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  • Lam RW, et al. (2006). The CAN-SAD Study: A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of light therapy and fluoxetine in patients with winter seasonal affective disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(5): 805-812.

  • Provencio, I (2005). Chronobiology. In BJ Sadock, VA Sadock, eds., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th ed., vol. 1, pp. 161–171. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

  • Terman JS, et al. (2001). Circadian time of morning light administration and therapeutic response in winter depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 58(1): 69–75.

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