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Antidepressant sertraline works for SAD people
CALGARY - As many as one in 10 people with clinical depression have seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
That's according to a new study of about 1,600 Canadian presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association annual meeting here.
Another 20 - centre international study of 200 patients with SAD -- 80 from Calgary -- showed they can be successfully treated by the antidepressant sertraline, said Dr. Adam Moscovitch, medical director of the Canadian Sleep Laboratory in Calgary.
It has now become a well recognized, well - defined condition that responds well to a variety of treatments," he said in an interview with the Medical Post.
Dr. Moscovitch said the important thing is not to wait until the patient is totally depressed by the long winter nights between October and March, but to initiate treatment in the early fall.
Not only do these people get depressed by the lack of light and suffer from...