The biblo follows. This is an Acrobat PDF doc. Too bad you can't get it since it has a very nice table summarizing those citations which are observational or xover double blind studies and their results .... which could help you select those you might want for further discussion. According to the original document, there are also three articles by Eastman et al, Lewy et al and Terman et al in the
Archives of General Psychiatry which give further positive evidence on benefits of light therapy in SAD. These are cited below but not discussed as they were not published when this guideline was published. Also: #8 is interesting as it deals with phototherapy in blind persons. I hope this helps.
(You can try going directly to their website:
http://www.aasmnet.org and surf your way to the guidelines section and look for the one on light therapy. It would be in the Professional Standards drop-down, Clin Practice Guidelines/Parameters).
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Authors:
Andrew L. Chesson, Jr.,1 Michael Littner,2 David Davila,3 W. MacDowell Anderson,4 Madeleine Grigg-Damberger,5 Kristyna Hartse,6
Stephen Johnson,7 Merrill Wise 8
1 Department of Neurology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA, 2 Department of Medicine, VA
Medical Center, Sepulveda CA, 3 Sleep Disorders Center, Baptist Medical Center, Little Rock, AR, 4 College of Medicine,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 5 Neurology Consultants Ltd, Albuquerque, NM, 6 Sleep Disorders
Center/Neurodiagnostics, Columbia Spring Branch Medical Center, Houston, TX, 7 Western Montana Clinic, Missoula, MT,
8 Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX
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PRACTICE PARAMETERS FOR THE USE OF LIGHT THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF SLEEP DISORDERS
Summary: These clinical guidelines were developed by the Standards of Practice Committee and reviewed and approved by the
Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The guidelines provide recommendations for the practice of sleep
medicine in North America regarding the use of light therapy for treatment of various sleep disorders. This paper is based on a
series of articles in the Journal of Biological Rhythms and also includes evidence tables from an updated Medline review covering
the period January 1994 to December 1997. Evidence is presented by grade and level. Recommendations are identified as stan-dards,
guidelines, or options. Recommendations are provided for delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS), advanced sleep phase
syndrome (ASPS), non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome, jet lag, shift work, dementia, and sleep complaints in the healthy elderly.
Light therapy appears generally safe if used within recommended intensity and time limits. Light therapy can be useful in treatment
of DSPS and ASPS. Benefits of light therapy are less clear and treatment is an option in jet lag, shift work, and non-24-hour sleep-wake
syndrome in some blind patients.
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Accepted for publication April 1999
Correspondence: Standards of Practice Committee, American Academy of
Sleep Medicine
Title: Practice Parameters for the Use of Light Therapy in the
Treatment of Sleep Disorders
Full text available online and the above is excerpted from (biblio only for Jeff Corey):
http://www.aasmnet.org/PDF/LightParameter.pdf
