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Mini Quiz: Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Psychiatric Times Editors

The human condition is such that all of us may be vulnerable to seasonal affective disorder. If placed in an environment sufficiently deprived of light we would all develop a reversible syndrome of major depression.

Bright light may be responsible for suppression of nocturnal pineal gland production of which of the following?

A. Insulin
B. Oxytocin
C. Prostacyclin
D. Melatonin
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