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- Seasonal affective disorder - Seasonal affective disorder, also known as winter depression, is an affective, or mood, disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience depressive symptoms in the winter or summer.
- Dawn simulation - Dawn simulation is a technique used in the treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as winter depression. Typically, the treatment involves timing lights in the bedroom to come on gradually, over a period of 30 minutes to 2 hours, before awakening.
- Ion therapy - Ion therapy uses a special electronic device that generates negatively charged particles. Negative ion therapy has been shown to alleviate symptoms associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder.
- Light therapy - Light therapy or phototherapy consists of exposure to specific wavelengths of light using lasers, LEDs, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light, for a prescribed amount of time. It has proven effective in treating Acne vulgaris, seasonal affective disorder, and for some people it has ameliorated delayed sleep phase syndrome.