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The Acute Side Effects of Bright Light Therapy: A Placebo-Controlled Investigation

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  • Yevgeny Botanov
  • Stephen S Ilardi

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Despite the emergence of numerous clinical and non-clinical applications of bright light therapy (LT) in recent decades, the prevalence and severity of LT side effects have not yet been fully explicated. A few adverse LT effects—headache, eye strain, irritability, and nausea—have been consistently reported among depressed individuals and other psychiatric cohorts, but there exists little published evidence regarding LT side effects in non-clinical populations, who often undergo LT treatment of considerably briefer duration. Accordingly, in the present study we examined, in a randomized sample of healthy young adults, the acute side effects of exposure to a single 30-minute session of bright white light (10,000 lux) versus dim red light (

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  • Yevgeny Botanov & Stephen S Ilardi, 2013. "The Acute Side Effects of Bright Light Therapy: A Placebo-Controlled Investigation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(9), pages 1-1, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0075893
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075893
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    1. Shu-Yi Huang & Malcolm Koo & Tsung-Cheng Hsieh & Ru-Ping Lee & Huei-Chuan Sung, 2020. "Effect of Bright Light Therapy on Depressive Symptoms in Middle-Aged and Older Patients Receiving Long-Term Hemodialysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-9, October.

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