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Foreword | p. IX |
Acknowledgements | p. XI |
List of Abbreviations | p. XII |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Unmet Needs in the Treatment of Depression | p. 1 |
Role of Biological Rhythms in Psychiatry | p. 3 |
principles of Circadian Timing | p. 3 |
Principles of sleep Regulation | p. 7 |
Mood Level varies with Time of Day and Duration of Wakefulness | p. 8 |
sleep Deprivation | p. 10 |
How it All Began: Light therapy for seasonal Affective Disorder | p. 10 |
Light Therapy-Beyond SAD | p. 11 |
What is Chronotherapeutics? | p. 13 |
Individual Chronotherapeutic Elements: Light, wake Therapy and sleep phase Advance | p. 15 |
Efficacy of Bright Therapy for SAD | p. 15 |
Timing of Bright Light Therapy | p. 16 |
Dawn (and Dusk) Simulation Therapy | p. 18 |
Efficacy of Bright Light Therapy for Non-Seasonal Depression | p. 21 |
Dark Therapy | p. 21 |
Wake Therapy | p. 21 |
Phase Advance of the sleep-wake Cycle | p. 22 |
Negative Air Lonisation | p. 23 |
Integrative Chronotherapeutics: Combinations of Light, wake, Therapy and sleep phase Advance | p. 25 |
A Note on Diagnostic Differences | p. 25 |
Bright Light Augmentation of Antidepressant Drug Treatment | |
Wake Therapy Added to Medication | p. 28 |
Wake and Light Therapy Added to Antidepressant Drugs or Mood Stabilisers | p. 29 |
Wake, Light, and sleep phase Advance Therapy | p. 30 |
Repeated Wake Therapy | p. 31 |
Inpatient Procedures | p. 32 |
Response Assessment and Monitoring | p. 32 |
Light Therapy Timing and Duration | p. 33 |
Exceptions to the Early Morning Light Rule for Bipolar 1 Disorder | p. 35 |
Beginning with Light Therapy (±Medication) | p. 35 |
Wake Therapy +Light Therapy | p. 37 |
Wake Therapy +Light Therapy+sleep Phase Advance | p. 39 |
Three Alternate Nights of Wake Therapy +Light Therapy+ Freely Chosen Sleep Phase Advance | p. 40 |
Variations on the Theme | p. 40 |
Maintenance Treatment | p. 41 |
Drug Tapering to Discontinuation | p. 42 |
Practical Details for Wake Therapy | p. 44 |
Which Patients Are Suitable? | p. 44 |
Predictors of Response | p. 44 |
Medication Allowances and Contraindications | p. 45 |
What to Tell Patients | p. 45 |
Setting and structure for the Night Awake | p. 45 |
Staff Monitoring | p. 46 |
Nurses on the Night Shift | p. 46 |
Nurses on the Day shift after wake Therapy | p. 47 |
Structure of the Day After | p. 47 |
Phase Advance of sleep following Wake therapy | p. 47 |
The Doctor's Tasks | p. 48 |
Is One-Time Wake Therapy Enough? | p. 48 |
Safety | p. 49 |
Special Conditions | p. 49 |
If There Is No Response | p. 49 |
At the End Of One week of Chronotherapeutics | p. 49 |
In Conclusion | p. 50 |
Practical Details for Light Therapy | p. 51 |
Criteria for Light Box Selection | p. 51 |
Using the Light Box | p. 52 |
Side Effects of Light Therapy | p. 53 |
Cautionary Notes about Bright Light Exposure | p. 53 |
Before Beginning Light Therapy | p. 54 |
In Conclusion | p. 54 |
p. 55 | |
Light Therapy | p. 55 |
Wake Therapy | p. 56 |
Range of Chronotherapeutic indications | p. 57 |
Antepartum Depression | p. 57 |
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder | p. 58 |
Bulimia Nervosa | p. 58 |
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | p. 58 |
Dementia | p. 59 |
Parkinson's Disease | p. 59 |
Shift Work and Jet Lag Disturbance | p. 59 |
Light Therapy for Children and Adolescents | p. 61 |
Light and wake therapy for older patients | p. 63 |
The Visually Impaired: More sleep Disturbances, More Depression | p. 65 |
Endogenous and Exogenous Melatonin | p. 67 |
The physiological Effects Of Melatonin | p. 67 |
Melatonin in Circadian Sleep-wake Cycle Disturbances | p. 70 |
Melatonin for Depression? | p. 71 |
Drugs That Affect Rhythms (chronobiotics) | p. 72 |
Melatonion Agonists | p. 72 |
Chronobiology of Lithium and Antidepressant | p. 73 |
Clock Genes in Depression | p. 74 |
Caffeine, Modafinil | p. 76 |
Social Rhythm Therapy | p. 77 |
Chronobiology in Everyday Life | p. 78 |
Know your Chronotype | p. 78 |
Timing of School and work Schedules versus Sleep | p. 78 |
Light and the Built Environment: Implications for Architecture | p. 79 |
References | p. 81 |
Subject Index | p. 87 |
Appendix | p. 91 |
Morningness-Eveningness self-assessment question (Chronotype), with Scoring and interpretation | p. 92 |
personal Inventory for Depression and SAD (diagnostic status), with scoring and interpretation | p. 99 |
25-item expanded Hamilton Depression scale with atypical symptoms(Current level of depression), Self assessment questionnaire with scoring and Interpretation | p. 102 |
6-item Hamilton Depression Scale, Core symptoms(for monitoring short-item changes) | p. 110 |
Daily sleep and medication logs, nd mood and energy ratings | p. 111 |
Chronotherapeutics information to outpatients and clinicians following hospital discharge | p. 112 |
Center for Environmental Therapeutics clinical assessment tools | p. 114 |
Author | p. 116 |
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