Patterns of Depressive Symptom Remission during the Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Light Therapy

摘要

BackgroundTo elucidate mechanisms related to remission in winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD), we explored the course of individual depressive symptom offset across two distinct treatment modalities that show comparable outcomes at treatment endpoint: cognitive-behavioral therapy for SAD (CBT-SAD) and light therapy (LT).