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...burdens of life without daylight are in many cases personal. Six percent of Americans suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) each winter, and an additional 14 percent experience more minor daylight-related mental health problems. SAD is eminently threatening at Harvard, where late bedtimes and heavy workloads conspire to deprive students of natural light. Extending Daylight Saving Time through the winter would alleviate an ample share of such cases...
Have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, especially in the winter? Find yourself eating more and gaining weight? Feel tired during the day? Get cranky in the cold? Difficulties concentrating? Chances are you might be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Fear not: University Health Services (UHS) has the answer: a light box to bring you year-round sunshine...
...SAD is a form of depression that commonly occurs in the fall and winter months, and subsides when the days get longer. According to Dr. Alfred Lewy, a chronobiologist from Oregon Health Services who was the first person to research SAD, “it’s like having jet lag for several months.” The disorder occurs when circadian rhythms get out of sync with the decreased amount of daylight during the winter. However, unlike jet lag, SAD doesn’t fix itself over time. SAD can last all winter, with the dark mornings leaving...
...SAD afflicts five to 20 percent of the population, and is five times more common among females than males. Unsurprisingly, it’s more common in the North, where days are shorter. Confirming the popular mythology surrounding the affliction, doctors find that students who hail from warmer regions might show signs of SAD their first winter in northerly Cambridge...
...recalls. "She's this tiny thing in this big bed, and the first thing I saw was the bag of blood. Then you really know it was serious." The front of her head was shaved because of a laceration; the perfect bangs were gone. "It was so sad," Dee remembers. She had brought her camcorder--and never took it out of its case. These weren't memories to save. "But we held her hand and kissed her, and she looked up and said, 'Hi, Mommy. You made...