Research Catalog

Title

Chronotherapeutics for affective disorders : a clinician's manual for light and wake therapy / Anna Wirz-Justice, Francesco Benedetti, Michael Terman.

Author

Wirz-Justice, Anna

Publication

Basel ; New York : Karger, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benedetti, Francesco, 1966-
• Terman, Michael

Description

xii, 116 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Subject

• Sleep Wake Disorders > therapy
• Phototherapy > methods
• Chronotherapy > methods
• Mood Disorders > therapy
• Affective disorders > Alternative treatment
• Clinical chronobiology
• Circadian rhythms > Therapeutic use
• Sleep deprivation > Therapeutic use
• Phototherapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-86) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Individual chronotherapeutic elements : light, wake therapy and sleep phase advance -- Integrative chronotherapeutics : combinations of light, wake therapy and sleep phase advance -- Inpatient procedures -- Practical details for wake therapy -- Practical details for light therapy -- Outpatient treatment strategies -- Range of chronotherapeutic indications -- Light therapy for children and adolescents -- Light and wake therapy for older patients -- The visually impaired : more sleep disturbances, more depression -- Endogenous and exogenous melatonin -- Drugs that affect rhythms (chronobiotics) -- Social rhythm therapy -- Chronobiology in everyday life.

ISBN

• 9783805591201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 3805591209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9783805591218 (e-ISBN : alk. paper)
• 3805591217 (e-ISBN : alk. paper)

OCLC

298509184

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library