3 January 2011--bright light exposure can make it easier for you to depression elderly people.
New study shows that bright light therapy boxes of light generated by the depression and suicide symptoms improved by as much as 54 percent of older adults and depression for three weeks.
In addition, you can use the lifting their moods, bright light therapy sleep, improved and optimized for the neurotransmitter serotonin levels. Low-serotonin depression-related antidepressant drugs and often targeted.
Researchers say it is the first major study to show an enjoyable bright light therapy in treating depression, for the elderly with seasonal depression.
"Bright light treatment may provide viable alternative to patients, who refuse, resist, or tolerate antidepressant treatment," Ritsaert Leiverse Psychiatry, MD, the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues of the archives of General Psychiatry researcher writes.
Researchers say depression causes often sleep problems and other issues of serious internal disturbances affecting the maintenance of natural circadian rhythms of the body or the body clock. Circadian rhythm disorders are also frequently elderly, which expose themselves as less often in bright ambient light.
Previous studies have suggested that bright light therapy helps restore the circadian rhythms and depression-related increase in brain.
In this study, researchers evaluated three weeks of bright light therapy, major depressive disorder in adults over the age of 89 on a code of conduct to be diagnosed with 60 effects. The participants were randomly divided into two groups and in the early morning hours at home in the list, either on the basis of the hours of light, bright light blue light therapy, or dim red light treatment (placebo treatment).
Three weeks after the treatment, the investigation showed that bright light therapy, depressive symptoms improved, compared with 43% to 36% were found in the plasebon method.
Three weeks after treatment ended, researchers found depression continue to improve the bright light therapy group (33% in the placebo group vs. the improvement of the 54%).
In addition, the results of stress of showed that the hormone Cortisol, which have been among the bright light therapy, decreased levels. Sleep quality improved in bright light therapy, are also among the group.
Researchers say improvements found in the bright light therapy in treating depressed older people, for the purposes of this study is similar to that found with antidepressant drug treatment improvements.
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