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Side effects of light therapy in seasonal affective disorder
A J Levitt1, R T Joffe, D E Moul
1Mood Disorders Program, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
The authors report the frequency of side effects of light therapy in 105 patients with seasonal affective disorder treated with three intensities of light. Common symptoms to emerge during treatment were headache (19%), eyestrain (17%), and feeling "wired" (14%). There was no relationship between side effects and intensity of light used.