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Seasonal variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: preliminary experience with light treatment
T H Yoney1, T A Pigott, F L'Heureux
1Laboratory of Clinical Science, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors surveyed 34 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder for a history of seasonal variations in symptoms and behavior and treated six of these patients with bright light. Overall, the patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder did not report a greater degree of seasonal variations than normal and no response was seen to bright light therapy in the small number of patients treated.