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Author: Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
Author: Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D. Comments from slipcover: "When the seasons change, 1. Do you find you have less energy than usual? 2. Do you feel less productive or creative? 3. Do you feel sad, down,or depressed? 4. Do you need more sleep than usual? 5. Do you feel you have no control over your appetite? Dr. Rosenthal explores the many dimensions of SAD and explains how weather changes can affect our sleeping patterns, our diet, our ability to cope with stress, and even our social interactions. He offers his own proven program for overcoming SAD, including nutritional advice, medication, and light therapy, as well as a complete source listing of SAD treatment centers around the country. Complete with a special self-test to determine your own level of SAD, the book offers insight and reassurance to the millions who suffer from seasonal depression and shows what they can do to start feeling better all year long."
Author: Mary Ellen Copeland Comments: A detailed overview of the history, causes and treatment of mood disorders. Offers stey-by-step, self-help guidance for taking responsibility for your own wellness; using charts to track and control your moods; find appropriate mental health professionals; build a support system, increase your self-confidence and self-esteem; using relaxation, diet, exercise and full-spectrum light to stabilize your moods; and avoid conditions that can exacerbate your mood swings. "An essential tool to assist people struggling with depression and mania to gain insight to actively enter a lifelong journey of healing and wellness."
Author: Dr. Ivan Goldberg
Publisher/Year: The Charles Press; 1993. Comments: 112 page FAQ on depression.
Author: David Avery, Kitty Dahl Descriptors: PHOTOTHERAPY-; SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY-; HUMAN-BIOLOGICAL-RHYTHMS
Content (from the chapter): Explores the possibility that a dysynchrony of the neuroendocrine 24-hr clock and sleep can cause seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and that bright light effectively treats SAD by resynchronizing these processes; reviews clinical aspects of SAD and bright light therapy, circadian rhythms, circadian neuroendocrine function, and circadian neuroendocrine function in SAD; hypothesize that abnormalies of the timing of neuroendocrine function may account for abnormalities of behavior.
Author: Francis T. McAndrew
Descriptors: ENVIRONMENTAL-PSYCHOLOGY Content (from the preface): "An informal, conversational style about seasonal affective disorders, Antarctic and outer space environments, and the environmental psychology of zoos should make this book interesting and accessible to students with minimal backgrounds in psychology. At the same time it deals with environment and behavior and is sufficiently rigorous that upper-level psychology students and graduate students will find it a useful survey of the field and a gateway to more in-depth work with primary sources."
Author: Dan A. Oren, Norman E. Rosenthal
Descriptors: SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER
Content (from the introduction): Seasonal affective
disorder (SAD) is a new psychiatric diagnosis that has been created during the last decade; its etiology is related to the season and to the geographical site of the affected individual; describes the manifestation and treatment of this disorder which, according to one survey, may affect 4% to 10% of the population.
Parent book information: Handbook of Affective Disorders (2nd ed.). (Eugene S. Paykel, Ed.), pp. 539-685. Descriptors: AFFECTIVE-DISTURBANCES; MAJOR-DEPRESSION; SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER; POSTPARTUM-DEPRESSION; CHILDREN-; ADOLESCENT; AGED-; GRIEF-; SUICIDE-; CROSS-CULTURAL-DIFFERENCES; MEDICAL-PATIENTS; ATTEMPTED-SUICIDE
Content (from the book): "Transcultural Aspects" (Julian
P. Leff), "Seasonal Affective Disorders" (Dan A. Oren and Norman E. Rosenthal), "Depression after Childbirth" ( John L. Cox), "Depression in Childhood and Adolescence" (Ian M. Goodyer), "Affective Disorders in Old Age" (Elaine Murphy and Alastair Macdonald), "Bereavement" (Warwick, Middleton and Beverley Raphael), "Suicide and Attempted Suicide" (Keit Hawton), "Depression in General Practice" (Paul R. Freeling and Andre Tylee), "Depression in Medical Settings" (Giovanni A. Fava).
Author: Eugene S. Paykel (Ed) Descriptors: AFFECTIVE-DISTURBANCES; ETIOLOGY-; TREATMENT-; PSYCHODIAGNOSIS-; PSYCHOTHERAPY-; DRUG-THERAPY; BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL-APPROACH Content (from the preface): The volume aims to provide comprehensive handbook drawing together knowledge across a wide range of approaches and aspects of the field (of affective disorders). An explicit aim has been to encompass the varying approaches which should be incorporated in an eclectic orientation to psychiatry, ranging across the psychological, biological and social. Depression has been given the greatest prominence, in view of its frequency. The continuities between milder and more severe forms receive somewhat less space since it is less common. Anxiety disorders, which previously were sometimes regarded as a facet of affective disorder are now firmly separated in their own right, and in this volume are discussed mainly in relation to depression. It is hoped that the volume will be useful in psychiatry and related medical, scientific, nursing, psychological, social work and mental health disciplines.
Author: Paul Gilbert
Descriptors: MAJOR-DEPRESSION; THEORIES-; THEORY-OF-EVOLUTION Content (from the jacket): "Bringing the reader up to date on current research and theory, this volume presents an ambitious overview of the various psychological approaches to understanding and treating depression. Part I explores the major distinctions among all types of depression, including discussion of seasonal affective disorder, postnatal depression, and depression in children. Illuminating the complex interplay of cognition, behavior, and biology in depression, this volume is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and other mental health sciences. Scholarly yet accessible, it also serves as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in these fields."
Author: Michael Terman, Janet B. W. Williams, Jiuan Su Terman
Descriptive notes: "This chapter is based in part on a report to the
Depression Guidelines Panel, US Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, January 1991". Descriptors: SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER; PHOTOTHERAPY-; PSYCHODIAGNOSI S-; PROFESSIONAL-LICENSING; OUTPATIENT-TREATMENT; HEALTH-INSURANCE
Content (from the book): "Provides current information about light therapy for winter depression (seasonal affective disorder or SAD)."
Author: William A. Sonis Descriptors: SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER; SEASONAL-VARIATIONS; BIOLOGICAL-RHYTHMS; CHILDREN-; ADOLESCENTS-; ADULTS
Content (from the chapter): Given the daily, monthly, and
yearly changes that occur around us, it is not suprising that geophysical
rhythm and seasonal changes in mood, activity, and energy. Review concepts used to describe and understand rhythms; the ontogeny of biologic rhythms; the chronobiological hypothesis of mood disorders; links between geophysical and biopsychosocial seasonal rhythms; and the current knowledge about recurrent winter depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in children, adolescents, and adults.
Author: Mohammad Shafii (Ed), Sharon Lee Shafii (Ed) Descriptors: MAJOR-DEPRESSION; MANIC-DEPRESSION; TREATMENT-; PSYCHODIAGNOSIS-; CHILDREN-; ADOLESCENTS-; PSYCHOTHERAPY-; COGNITIVE-THERAPY; DRUG-THERAPY; SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC-HOSPITALIZATION Content (from the jacket): "This volume integrates concisely yet comprehensively state-of-the-art advances in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of depressive disorders and bipolar disorders in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Distinguished contributors combine their many years study of this fast-evolving area. The book begins with a discussion of depression's clinical manifestations, including epidemiology, neurobiology, and chronobiology of seasonal mood disorders. A section on diagnostic assessment and treatment addresses standardized approaches to assessment and such treatment modalities as dynamic psychotherapy, group therapy, cognitive therapy, the latest advances in pharmacological treatment, and inpatient treatment. A concluding section examines bipolar disorder--its clinical manifestations, natural history, genetics, and treatment." Audience type (from the introduction): We hope that the "Clinical Guide to Depression in Children and Adolescents" will be useful to child and adolescent psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, residents in general, child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental pediatricians, pediatric neurologist, family physicians, medical students, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, psychiatric social workers, art and activity therapists, and other health and mental health professionals.
Author: Demitri F. Papolos
Descriptors: SEROTONIN-; AFFECTIVE-DISTURBANCES; SEASONAL-VARIATIONS;
ETIOLOGY-; MELATONIN-; PINEAL-BODY; RAPHE-NUCLEI; SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER;
HUMAN-BIOLOGICAL-RHYTHMS; PHOTOTHERAPY-
Content (from the book): Describes the role of melatonin in the regulation of biological rhythms, and the critical relationship between 5-HT (5-hydroxytryptamine) and melatonin. Data are reviewed that suggest it is hypothesized that specific disturbances in 5-HT function in the pineal-raphe-suprachiasmatic nucleus system may determine an abnormality in photoperiodic regulation that may be involved in the pathogenesis of at least some types of affective disorder. Circadian rhythm dysfunctions; seasonal affective disorder (SAD); the photoperiodic response and light therapy of SAD; the pineal; melatonin secretions in patients with mood disorders.
Author: Michael Terman, David S. Schlager Descriptors: MELATONIN-; SLEEP-WAKE-CYCLE; SEASONAL-AFFECTIVE-DISORDER; PHOTOTHERAPY-; ADULTHOOD-; HUMAN-BIOLOGICAL-RHYTHMS
Content (from the chapter): Explores effects of simulated
dawn twilight exposures on a group of winter depressives; asks whether high daylight intensities are necesary to achieve the antidepressant effect if a more naturalistic exposure pattern is provided in the bedroom; considers the role of the gradual dawn signal in the regulation of melatonin secretion and the sleep-wake pattern; methods, results and discussion (clinical response; circadian phase responses to dawn; immediate effects of dawn on melatonin sleep). Return to TOP
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