Light therapy—or phototherapy, classically mentioned as heliotherapy—consists either of A.) exposure to sunlight or some equivalent sort of light as a treatment for seasonal major affective disorder (SAD) or B.) exposure of the
skin to specific wavelengths of sunshine using polychromatic polarised light to treat a
skin condition. As a treatment for wintertime seasonal major affective disorder , there's tentative evidence to support its use to treat non-seasonal psychiatric disorders, especially major
depression and
depression in manic depression . and is additionally utilized in biological time disorders like delayed sleep phase disorder. As a treatment for disorders of the skin, the second quite light therapy is supposed to correct psoriasis, acne , eczema and
neonatal jaundice.
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