Light Therapy
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Evidence suggests Light Therapy maydecreaseDepression.

16 studies (16 claims)

Moderate consensus

Study Claims

13 of 16

Intervention	Direction	Endpoint	Type	Population	Dosage	Title
			Human	—	Not specified	Circadian realignment and depressed mood: A systematic review.
			Human	—	—	Psychological and behavioural interventions in bipolar disorder that target sleep and circadian rhythms: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
			Human	patients with a history of TBI	—	Blue-wavelength light therapy for post-traumatic brain injury sleepiness, sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.
			Human	—	Not specified	Evaluating the impact of adjunct bright light therapy on subjective sleep quality in major depressive disorder.
			Human	persons with epilepsy and depression	Not specified	Depression in Persons With Epilepsy: Lessons From Case Review.
			Human	patients affected by bipolar depression	Not specified	Antidepressant light therapy for bipolar patients: A meta-analyses.
			Human	persons with both mild/moderate and severe dementia	Not specified	Bright Light Therapy to Treat Depression in Individuals with Mild/Moderate or Severe Dementia.
			Human	unipolar depression	Not specified	Sleep and major depressive disorder: a review of non-pharmacological chronotherapeutic treatments for unipolar depression.
			Human	—	Not specified	Chronobiology, sleep-related risk factors and light therapy in perinatal depression: the "Life-ON" project.
			Human	women during pregnancy and the postnatal period	Not specified	The effects of light therapy on depression and sleep in women during pregnancy or the postpartum period: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
			Human	those with Bulimia Nervosa	Not specified	The role of complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of eating disorders: A systematic review.
			Human	the general population	Not available	A multicenter randomized controlled trial for bright light therapy in adults with intellectual disabilities and depression: Study protocol and obstacle management.
			Human	depressed patients	Not specified	Circadian rhythms and treatment implications in depression.