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Seasonal Affective Disorder |
SAD |
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter. SAD is rare, if existent at all in the tropics, but is measurably present at latitudes of 30°N (or S) and higher. Cause Seasonal mood variations are believed to be related mostly to daylight, not temperature. For this reason, SAD is prevalent even in mid-la ...
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Resources
- Ask NOAH About: Seasonal Affective DisorderFact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Institutes of Health)
- Depression: Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Mental Health Association)
- Holiday Depression & Stress (National Mental Health Association)
- Light Therapy Lifts the Gloom of Seasonal Affective Disorder (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Mental Health Association
- SAD (HealthWorld)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (Medline Plus)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (MayoClinic)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (Cleveland Clinic)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder Has Biological Roots (American Medical Association)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder is More Than the Holiday Blues (Cleveland Clinic)
- Seasonal Depression (Cleveland Clinic)
- Understanding Seasonal Affective Disorder and Light Therapy (Cleveland Clinic)
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