Psychiatric Chronotherapy
A set of circadian rhythm-altering interventions that treat depression by adjustments of the sleep-wake cycle and daily light exposure. These include bright light therapy, dawn simulation, and wake therapy.
Rapid Treatment for Depression
Standard antidepressant medications usually require anywhere from 3 to 8 weeks to achieve significant results.
Light-based chronotherapies typically produce similar effects in 1 to 3 weeks.
Chronotherapies utilizing wake therapy, including triple chronotherapy, commonly generate remissions within 1 to 2 days.
Click here to view a recent press release published by Northwestern Memorial Hospital regarding rapid treatment of depression through Chronotherapy.
Accelerates and Enhances Standard Treatments for Depression
Chronotherapies can be used with antidepressant medications to increase speed and degree of treatment response.
Indicated for Unipolar and Bipolar Depression, and S.A.D.