Stories
- 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).
- 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?
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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
Reset your inner clock : the drug-free way to your best-ever sleep, mood, and energy / Michael Terman, Director, Center for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, Columbia University Medical Center, Ian McMahan, City University of New York.
Terman, MichaelDate: 2013- Books
Sleep : your questions answered / Renata L. Riha.
Riha, Renata L.Date: 2007- Books
Henry David Thoreau : cycles and psyche / by Michael Sperber.
Sperber, Michael, 1931-Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
The impact of the environment on psychiatric disorder / edited by Hugh Freeman and Stephen Stansfeld.
Date: 2008