Stories
- Article
How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Article
Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 51. 'The Recent History of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2012 - 2014Reference: GC/253/A/51Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
The recent history of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the History of Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 10 December 2013 / edited by C Overy and E M Tansey.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
Transcripts
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2012 - 2014Reference: GC/253/A/51/4Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames 'Arendt' to ' Follett'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2012 - 2014Reference: GC/253/A/51/2Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence. Surnames 'Hanson' to 'Rosenthal'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2012 - 2014Reference: GC/253/A/51/3Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars