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| K MartinySummaryAffiliation: Frederiksborg General Hospital Country: Denmark Publications
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[Light therapy for managing sleep and behavioral disturbances and depressive symptoms in dementia]Klaus Martiny
Psykiatrisk Sygehus, Psykiatrisk Forskningsenhed,
Ugeskr Laeger 168:1317-21. 2006
The lack of sustained effect of bright light, after discontinuation, in non-seasonal major depressionKlaus Martiny
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hilleroed, Denmark
Psychol Med 36:1247-52. 2006..Whether bright light has a sustained effect after discontinuation is, however, poorly investigated...
[Physical therapies for depression--light, exercise, TMS and sleep deprivation]Klaus Martiny
Psykiatrisk Sygehus Hillerød, Psykiatrisk Forskningsenhed, Hillerød
Ugeskr Laeger 169:1450-2. 2007..Sleep deprivation has the fastest known antidepressant effect, but the risk of relapse limits its use. New regimens including drugs and light may sustain the response...
Adjunctive bright light in non-seasonal major depression: results from clinician-rated depression scalesK Martiny
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hilleroed, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 112:117-25. 2005..To investigate the use of bright light therapy as an adjunct treatment to sertraline in non-seasonal major depression...
Adjunctive bright light in non-seasonal major depression: results from patient-reported symptom and well-being scalesK Martiny
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hilleroed, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 111:453-9. 2005..In this study, we tested the efficacy of bright light therapy as an adjunct to antidepressant treatment (sertraline) in patients with non-seasonal major depression...
Decreasing TSH levels in patients with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) responding to 1 week of bright light therapyKlaus Martiny
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Dyrehavevej 48, DK 3400 Hillerød, Denmark
J Affect Disord 79:253-7. 2004..These symptoms seem associated with hypothyroidism, but the results of evaluations of the thyroid function in SAD patients have been conflicting, most likely due to the very small number of observations...
Relapse prevention by citalopram in SAD patients responding to 1 week of light therapy. A placebo-controlled studyK Martiny
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 109:230-4. 2004..We have tested the relapse-preventive effect of citalopram when compared with placebo in 282 patients with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) responding to 1 week of light therapy...
High cortisol awakening response is associated with an impairment of the effect of bright light therapyK Martiny
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, DK 3400 Hillerød, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 120:196-202. 2009..We investigated the predictive validity of the cortisol awakening response (CAR) in patients with non-seasonal major depression...
Identifying patients with therapy-resistant depression by using factor analysisK Andreasson
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
Pharmacopsychiatry 43:252-6. 2010..Attempts to identify the factor structure in patients with treatment-resistant depression have been very limited...
Psychiatric outcome studies (POS): does treatment help the patients? A Popperian approach to research in clinical psychiatryP Bech
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, 48, Dyrehavevej, , Denmark
Nord J Psychiatry 61:4-34. 2007
The internal and external validity of the Major Depression Inventory in measuring severity of depressive statesL R Olsen
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, , Denmark
Psychol Med 33:351-6. 2003..86, P < or = 0.01, Spearman 0.80, P < or = 0.01). CONCLUSION: When used in a sample of patients with different states of depression the MDI has an adequate internal and external validity...
The Pharmacopsychometric Triangle to Illustrate the Effectiveness of T-PEMF Concomitant with Antidepressants in Treatment Resistant Patients: A Double-Blind, Randomised, Sham-Controlled Trial Revisited with Focus on the Patient-Reported OutcomesP Bech
Psychiatric Research Unit, Frederiksborg General Hospital, 3400 Hillerød, Denmark
Depress Res Treat 2011:806298. 2011..41. The advantage of active over sham T-PEMF obtained an effect size of 0.48. Conclusion. Active T-PEMF was found superior to sham T-PEMF within the pharmacopsychometric triangle with a clinically significant effect size level above 0.40...
Chronotherapeutics (light and wake therapy) in affective disordersAnna Wirz-Justice
Psychol Med 35:939-44. 2005..3) Given the urgent need for new strategies to treat patients with residual depressive symptoms, clinical trials of wake therapy and/or adjuvant light therapy, coupled with follow-up studies of long-term recurrence, are a high priority...
