Am J Psychiatry 1991; 148:1727-1729
Copyright © 1991 by American Psychiatric Association
Seasonal variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: preliminary experience with light treatment
TH Yoney, TA Pigott, F L'Heureux and NE Rosenthal
Laboratory of Clinical Science, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
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.
