Seasonal affective disorder: a clinical update

Å Westrin, RW Lam - Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Background. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) consists of recurrent major depressive
episodes in the fall/winter with remissions in spring/summer. Method. A Medline search was …

Genetic factors affecting seasonality, mood, and the circadian clock

C Garbazza, F Benedetti - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In healthy humans, seasonality has been documented in psychological variables,
chronotype, sleep, feeding, metabolic and autonomic function, thermoregulation …

Are seasonality of mood and eveningness closely associated?

V Natale, A Adan, P Scapellato - Psychiatry research, 2005 - Elsevier
It has been suggested that being an “evening type” might enhance susceptibility to non-
seasonal and seasonal affective disorders (SAD). In a survey and a prospective study, we …

Update on the biology of seasonal affective disorder

CH Sohn, RW Lam - CNS spectrums, 2005 - cambridge.org
The etiology and pathophysiology of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has been linked to
the seasons and to light since its first conceptualization. Aspects of SAD that make it …

Association of CLOCK, ARNTL, and NPAS2 gene polymorphisms and seasonal variations in mood and behavior

HI Kim, HJ Lee, CH Cho, SG Kang… - Chronobiology …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a condition of seasonal mood changes characterized
by recurrent depression in autumn or winter that spontaneously remits in spring or summer …

Morningness–eveningness preference and eating disorders

V Natale, D Ballardini, R Schumann… - Personality and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to attempt to clarify the relationship between eveningness
preferences and eating behaviour. In a survey a sample of 270 females (146 recruited in a …

Polymorphisms in the circadian expressed genes PER3 and ARNTL2 are associated with diurnal preference and GNβ3 with sleep measures

MJ Parsons, KJ Lester, NL Barclay… - Journal of sleep …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep and circadian rhythms are intrinsically linked, with several sleep traits, including sleep
timing and duration, influenced by both sleep homeostasis and the circadian phase. Genetic …

Common Genetic Variants in ARNTL and NPAS2 and at Chromosome 12p13 are Associated with Objectively Measured Sleep Traits in the Elderly

DS Evans, N Parimi, CM Nievergelt, T Blackwell… - Sleep, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives: To determine the association between common genetic variation
in the clock gene pathway and objectively measured actigraphic sleep and activity rhythm …

Association of CLOCK, ARNTL, PER2, and GNB3 polymorphisms with diurnal preference in a Korean population

HM Song, CH Cho, HJ Lee, JH Moon… - Chronobiology …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Polymorphisms in human circadian genes are potential genetic markers that affect diurnal
preference in several populations. In this study, we evaluated whether four polymorphisms …

The involvement of G proteins and regulators of receptor–G protein coupling in the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders

S Avissar, G Schreiber - Clinica chimica acta, 2006 - Elsevier
Biochemical research in mood disorders has focused, along the cascade of events involved
in signal transduction, from studies at the level of the monoamine neurotransmitter to the …