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Environmetal and Behavioral Influences on Affective Illness
Author(s) -
Wehr T. A.,
Rosenthal N. E.,
Sack D. A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb08554.x
Subject(s) - physical illness , psychology , affect (linguistics) , organism , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , communication , biology , paleontology
A behavioral factor, sleep, and a physical environmental factor, light, can trigger or terminate episodes of affective illness. The authors review the experimental evidence for these effects and discuss recent research on their biological mechanisms. In light of these findings the authors speculate that affective illness could partly be a disorder of systems that mediate the organism's adaptations to changes in the physical environment.