Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a subform of major depressive disorder, recurrent, or bipolar disorder with a regular onset of depressive episodes at a certain time of year, usually the winter. The treatment of SAD is similar to that of other forms of affective disorder, except that bright light therapy is recommended as the first-line option. Light therapy conventionally involves exposure...

50 manic patients of unipolar and bipolar affective illness were placed on oral lithium 600-1500 mg daily and serum levels in the range of 0.49-1.23 mEq/L. A better response in bipolar disorders than unipolar was observed. Besides, a much better response to lithium therapy is observed in patients with disease of longer duration and a positive history of affective illness in blood relations. The...

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An analysis was made of the distribution of various blood groups in subjects with affective disorders. A group of healthy subjects served as controls. The distribution showed lack of association of affective disorder and any blood groups.