Evidence for the Efficacy of Bright Light Therapy for Bipolar Depression

Francesco Benedetti¹, David H Avery¹, Michael Bauer¹+22

• ¹From the Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Psychiatric Medicine Associates, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany; the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine; the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; the Section for Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, and the Division of Mental Health Care, Valen Hospital, Fonna Local Health Authority, Norway; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna; the Department of Psychiatry, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan; the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen; University Center for Psychiatry, University Medical Center, Groningen, the Netherlands; the Departments of Psychophysiology and of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo; Psychiatrist Team Alkmaar West, Alkmaar, the Netherlands; the Department of Psychiatry, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo; the Department of Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw; Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; the Department of Psychiatry, Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; and the Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing.