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Morning Light is Crucial for Happiness. Here’s How to Get it — Even if You Hate Mornings
Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of Yale School of Medicine's Winter Depression Research Clinic, spoke to Vox about the need for people to include light exposure in the morning to combat seasonal depression.
Source: Vox
8 Jan 2024
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What to Know About Treating Seasonal Affective Disorder
Paul Desan, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Winter Depression Research Clinic at Yale School of Medicine, spoke to PBS News about why some people suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, a recurrent form of depression that emerges in the winter.
Source: PBS News
28 Nov 2023
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Longer, dangerous heat waves raise concerns over increased seasonal affective disorder
Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Psychiatric Consultation Service, spoke to ABC News about how heat waves can increase rates of seasonal affective disorder, explaining that the hotter temperatures, combined with the disruption of a normal summer routine could make more people more depressed, agitated and in need of professional counseling.
Source: ABC News
9 Aug 2023
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Here's Why Late Winter And Early Spring Can Be So Depressing
Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, spoke with Buzzfeed News about springtime depression.
Source: Buzzfeed News
20 Mar 2023
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What to Know About Seasonal Depression
Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and an expert on season affective disorder (SAD), spoke to The New York Times about causes and treatments for SAD.
Source: The New York Times
24 Oct 2022
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Permanent Daylight Saving Time: What That Means For Connecticut
Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, spoke to WTNH - News 8 about a proposal in Washington to make daylight saving time permanent.
Source: WTNH - News 8
17 Mar 2022
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Why Telehealth for Mental Health Care Is Working
Yale Medicine providers say virtual care for mental health has many benefits.
Source: Yale Medicine
16 Sep 2021
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Mazur Named Webb Fellow by ACLP
Shannon Mazur, DO, MA, a Consultation Liaison Psychiatry fellow at Yale School of Medicine, has been named a Webb Fellow by the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP).
8 Dec 2020
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Will COVID-19 Make Seasonal Affective Disorder Worse?
“I’m quite worried about how this winter will be for people who experience SAD. Most are already nervous about COVID-19. They will be indoors, and they won’t be exposed to the same amount of bright light,” says Paul Desan, MD, PhD, director of the Psychiatric Consultation Service at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Source: Yale Medicine
22 Nov 2020
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Light Therapy Lamps Can Ease Seasonal Depression. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Paul Desan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Winter Depression Research Clinic at Yale School of Medicine, discusses why light therapy can assist people who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD.
Source: The Washington Post
18 Nov 2020
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Healthy Gifts That Are Doctor Recommended
Healthy Gifts That Are Doctor Recommended
Source: The Remedy
28 Nov 2019
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New models of psychiatric consultation in the general medical hospital: Liaison psychiatry is back
Paul H. Desan, MD, PhD; Hochang B. Lee, MD; Paula Zimbrean, MD; and William Sledge, MD, of the Yale Department of Psychiatry have collaborated on an article published in the journal Psychiatry Annals entitled, "New Models of Psychiatric Consultation in the General Medical Hospital: Liaison Psychiatry is Back."
Source: Psychiatric Annals
17 Jul 2017
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Yale Psychological Medicine Service sends several members to APM annual meeting
The Yale Psychological Medicine Service sent several representatives to Austin, Texas, on November 9-12 to attend and participate in the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine’s (APM) 2016 annual meeting.
14 Nov 2016
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The Exam Room: Seasonal affective disorder and the lightbox fix
Don't let the winter blues keep you down.
Source: Insitutional Planning and Communications
22 Dec 2014
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Winter depression is real, and it’s hit CT
90% of people tell Yale-New Haven Hospital's Winter Depression Clinic that they feel worst in the winter months. Symptoms can be related to patterns of melatonin secretion and hormone shifts in the winter months, also the human body has an acute awareness of dawn and dusk. That's why Paul Desan, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and the clinic's director, recommends light therapy.
Source: FOX CT
11 Feb 2014
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Yale study is named best research article by Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
Each year, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine presents its Dorfman Awards to top articles published in Psychosomatics, the organization's journal of consultation and liaison psychiatry. This year's best research article honor went to the Yale-authored "Proactive Psychiatric Consultation Services Reduce Length of Stay for Admissions to an Inpatient Medical Team" which appeared in the November–December 2011 issue of Psychosomatics.
15 Jan 2013
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Feeling out of sorts after turning back the clock?
You’re not the only one. It could be Seasonal Affective Disorder, and it may be worth a visit to the doctor.
10 Nov 2011
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Ancients May Have Been Right that "Humors" Are Linked to Depression According to Study of Seasonal Affective Disorder
A Yale School of Medicine and Veteran's Affairs Administration study finding that patients with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) have lower nighttime levels of bilirubin, a bile pigment found in the blood and known by ancient Greek physicians as a "humor," lends support to the humoral theories of mood they espoused.
16 Jan 2002