The final year of high school in New South Wales (Australia) is characterised by a high stakes, performance-oriented learning environment. This article is a report of the results of an investigation into the changes over time that may occur in the achievement motivation of final-year school students. Two sets of analyses of repeated measures are reported. The results indicate that declines occu...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a subtype of affective disorder, which causes significant distress but has no-definitive treatments available till date. Research on SAD has shown variable prevalence due to different climates and latitudes in which these studies are carried outThe present study was an attempt to study prevalence of SAD, its socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a subtype of a mood disorder that is characterized by recurring episodes of major depression, the onset and remission of which seem to relate to particular seasons. This condition most commonly begins in autumn/ winter and fully remits by spring. While the pathogenesis is uncertain, there appears to be a relationship to light exposure and delay in the affect...

BACKGROUND There are no controlled studies investigating the response of patients with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) to a total sleep deprivation (SD). METHODS The clinical response to SD of patients with SAD in winter was investigated under the stringently controlled conditions of a 40-h constant routine protocol. RESULTS 52% of the SAD patients (N=11 women) improved, using a mean of a...

A patient with recurrent summer depression for seven consecutive years is described, whose mood significantly worsened with increased environmental temperature. She had a family history of recurrent summer depression in both her brother and paternal grandmother with symptoms similar to those of typical endogenous depression. The patient's mood switched to hypomania with antidepressant therapy.

This comment discusses some errors in a recent paper by Jacobsen and Marquering [Jacobsen, B., Marquering, W., 2008. Is it the weather? Journal of Banking and Finance 32 (4), 526–540], in which the authors challenge our previous finding that stock market returns exhibit seasonal patterns consistent with the influence of seasonal affective disorder on investor risk aversion. We find that we cann...

the present study examined whether negative parenting characteristics are associated with offspring’s bipolar spectrum diagnoses. individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders and matched normal controls completed measures of the parenting behaviors their parents exhibited while the individuals were growing up. lower levels of acceptance/warmth from mothers and higher levels of negative psycholog...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), winter type, is a condition characterized by the annual recurrence of depressive episodes during fall/winter, alternating with spring/summer euthymia or hypomania. Various neurotransmitters have been implicated in the etiology of SAD, the strongest evidence involving serotonin. Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the potential role of catecholamine...

Background. There is a need for more knowledge on the effects of light room treatment in patients with seasonal affective disorder and to explore patients' subjective experience of the disease and the treatment. Methods. This was a descriptive and explorative study applying qualitative content analysis. A purposeful sample of 18 psychiatric outpatients with a major depressive disorder with a se...