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1. Winter Blues: Seasonal Affective Disorder and How to Overcome It

   Author: Norman Rosenthal, M.D.
   Publisher/Year: The Guilfold Press; 1993
   ISBN: NA

2. Seasons of the Mind

   Author: Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.
   Publisher/Year: Bantam Books 1990
   ISBN: 0-553-34993-7

   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."

3. The Depression Workbook

   Author: Mary Ellen Copeland
   Publisher/Year: New Haringer Publications; 1992
   ISBN: NA

   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."

4. Questions and Answers about Depression and its Treatment

   Author: Dr. Ivan Goldberg Publisher/Year: The Charles Press; 1993.
   ISBN: 0-914783-68-8

   Comments: 112 page FAQ on depression.

  Academic and Professional...

1. Bright Light Therapy and Circadian Neuroendocrine Function in Seasonal Affective Disorder

   Author: David Avery, Kitty Dahl
   Publisher/Year: University of Washington, School of Medicine,
   Harborview Medical Ctr, Seattle, WA, US, 1993
   ISBN: 0-12-631330-X (hardcover)
   Interdisciplinary: Graduate/Professional
   Sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, Research Scientist Development Award, Rockville, MD, US; U Washington, Graduate School Research Fund, Seattle, WA, US; American Assn of University Women, International Fellowship, Washington, DC, US

   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.
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2. Environmental Psychology

   Author: Francis T. McAndrew
   Knox College, Galesburg, IL, US
   Publisher/Year: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co; Pacific Grove, CA, US; xvii, 406 pp., 1993
   ISBN: 0-534-19308-0 (hardcover)
   Audience type: Psychology: Pre-Professional/Undergraduate
   Document type: Textbook: Undergraduate

   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."

3. Environmental Light and Mood

   Author: Dan A. Oren, Norman E. Rosenthal
   National Institute of Mental Health, Clinical Psychology Branch, Senior Clinical Investigator, Rockville, MD, US
   Parent book Information: Environment and psychopathology. (Abdu'l-Missagh A. Ghadirian, Heinz Edgar Lehmann, Eds.), pp. 3-20. Springer Publishing Co Inc, New York, NY, US; xv, 188 pp., 1993
   ISBN: 0-8261-7460-4 (hardcover)
   Audience type: Psychology: Graduate/Professional

   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.
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4. Special Aspects

   Parent book information: Handbook of Affective Disorders (2nd ed.). (Eugene S. Paykel, Ed.), pp. 539-685.
   Publisher/Year: Guilford Press, New York, NY, US; xi, 699 pp., 1992
   ISBN: 0-89862-674-9 (hardcover)
   Audience type: Interdisciplinary: Practitioner
   Age groups: Child; Adolescent; Adult; Elderly

   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).
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5. Handbook of Affective Disorders (2nd ed.)

   Author: Eugene S. Paykel (Ed)
   Cambridge University, Addenbrooke's Hospital,
   Professor of Psychiatry, Cambridge, England
   Publisher/Year: Guilford Press; New York, NY, US; xii, 699pp., 1992
   ISBN: 0-89862-674-9 (hardcover)
   Audience type: Interdisciplinary: Practitioner
   Document type: Handbook/Manual

   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.

6. Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness

   Author: Paul Gilbert
   Pastures Hospital, Dept of Psychology, Head of Adult Mental Health, Derby, England
   Publisher/Year: Guilford Press; New York, NY, US; xiii, 561 pp., 1992
   ISBN: 0-89862-884-9 (hardcover); 0-89862-027-9 (paperback)
   Audience type: Interdisciplinary: Graduate/Professional

   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."

7. Light Therapy for Winter Depression: A Clinician's Guide

   Author: Michael Terman, Janet B. W. Williams, Jiuan Su Terman
   Columbia U, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry, New York, NY, US
   Parent book information: Innovations in Clinical Practice: A Source Book, Vol. 10. (Peter A. Keller, Steven R. Heyman, Eds.), pp. 179-221.
   Publisher/Year: Professional Resource Press/Professional Resource Exchange, Inc, Sarasota, FL, US; x, 48 pp., 1991
   ISBN: 0-943158-72-9 (hardcover); 0-943158-71-0 (looseleaf)
   Audience type: Psychology: Practitioner

   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".
   Sponsor; Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc, Rockville, MD, US; National Insts of Health, Biomedical Research Support Grant Program, Bethesda, MD, US

   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)."
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8. Chronobiology of Seasonal Mood Disorders

   Author: William A. Sonis
   U Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor, Philadelphia, PA, US
   Parent book information: Clinical Guide to Depression in Children and Adolescents. (Mohammad Shafii, Sharon Lee Shafii, Eds.), pp. 89-114.
   Publisher/Year: American Psychiatric Press, Inc, Washington, DC, US; xv, 304 pp., 1992
   ISBN: 0-88048-356-3 (hardcover)
   Audience type: Interdisciplinary: Practitioner
   Age groups: Child; Adolescent; Adult
   Sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Academic Award, Rockville, MD, US

   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.
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9. Clinical Guide to Depression in Children and Adolescents

   Author: Mohammad Shafii (Ed), Sharon Lee Shafii (Ed)
   University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry, Louisville, KY, US
   Publisher/Year: American Psychiatric Press, Inc; Washington, DC, US; xv, 304 pp., 1992
   ISBN: 0-88048-356-3 (hardcover)
   Audience type: Interdisciplinary: Practitioner
   Age groups: Child; Adolescent
   Document type: Guide

   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.

10. Serotonin, Seasonality, and Mood Disorders

    Author: Demitri F. Papolos
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Dept of Psychiatry, Assistant Professor, Bronx,_
    Parent book information: The Role of Serotonin in Psychiatric Disorder, Clinical and Experimental Psychiatry monograph, No. 4. (Serena-Lynn Brown, Herman M. van Praag, Eds.), pp. 260-283.
    Publisher/Year: Brunner/Mazel, Inc, New York, NY US; xiii, 349 pp., 1991
    ISBN: 0-87630-589-3 (hardcover)
    Audience type: Psychology: Graduate/Professional

    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.
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11. Twilight Therapeutics, Winter Depression, Melatonin and Sleep

    Author: Michael Terman, David S. Schlager
    New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, US
    Parent book information: Sleep and Biological rhythms: Basic Mechanisms and Applications to Psychiatry. (Jacques Montplaisir, Roger Godbout, Eds.) pp. 113-128.
    Publisher/Year: Oxford University Press, New York, NY, US; xvi, 240 pp.
    ISBN: 0-19-505825-9 (hardcover)
    Audience type: Interdisciplinary: Graduate/Professional
    Document type: Experimental Material
    Age group: Adult
    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, MD, US; New York State Science & Technology Foundation, NY US

    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).
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