Bright light therapy can be helpful for adults with seasonal depression and with non-seasonal depression too. It’s an approach that is safe and non-invasive and would be well suited to adolescents with depression—except that it doesn’t seem to work in this age group. A trial in four centres in Germany randomised young people with moderate or severe major depressive disorder either to bright light therapy or to a placebo treatment using red light. Both groups improved over the four weeks of the trial, but bright light was no better than placebo ( JAMA Psychiatry doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0103). Amblyopia affects 1-3% of …

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光疗法治疗抑郁症。 。 。和其他故事

强光疗法对患有季节性抑郁症和非季节性抑郁症的成年人也有帮助。这是一种安全且非侵入性的方法，非常适合患有抑郁症的青少年，但它似乎在这个年龄段不起作用。德国四个中心进行的一项试验将患有中度或重度重度抑郁症的年轻人随机接受强光治疗或使用红光的安慰剂治疗。两组在为期四个星期的试验中都有所改善，但强光并不比安慰剂更好（JAMA Psychiatry doi:10.1001/jamappsychiatry.2024.0103）。弱视影响 1-3% 的人……