Marijke Gordijn CEO of Chrono@Work will give a lecture on Thursday 30th of June entitled: “How to set light and dark for personal and work schedules” as part of the teaching course of SLTBR in New York. http://sltbr.org/event/sltbr-meeting-2016/
The therapy of first choice for treating Seasonal Affective Disorder, winter type, is light treatment. Meta analyses have shown that light therapy in the morning has the highest chance to be successful. In the Netherlands, common practice is 30-45 minutes of bright light therapy in the morning for five consecutive days. If given early in…
Knapen S.E., Gordijn M.C.M., Meesters Y. The relation between chronotype and treatment outcome with light therapy on a fixed time schedule. J. Aff Disord. vol 202:87-90 (2016).
Light pulses of 30 min. in the morning on three consecutive days, in a home setting, in combination with dim light during the evenings, can be part of an efficient phase advancing chronotherapy protocol to shift the biological clock. It is well known from controlled laboratory experiments, that light in the morninge induces phase shifts of the biological…
