Educational Events
Bright Light Therapy: Practical Applications in Psychiatry
Friday, March 31, 2023 from 8:00am to 4:30pm
Location: Asher Center for the Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders, Arkes Pavilion, 676 N St Clair St, Ste 1000, Chicago, IL
The program goal of this workshop is to provide clinical, skills focused training on applications of bright light therapy in psychiatry.
Three learning objectives are as follows:
- To inform clinicians of patient centered approaches to integrate bright light therapy into treatment plans to improve functioning and reduce symptoms among patients with major mood disorders;
- To enhance the knowledge base of clinicians on the underlying mechanisms of bright light therapy and clinical chronotherapeutics; and
- To examine novel applications that utilize bright light therapy in reproductive psychiatry. Indications of bright light therapy in the management of seasonal affective disorder, non-seasonal major depression, perinatal major depression and bipolar depression, as well as sleep or circadian rhythm disturbances will be discussed in detail.
Attendees will learn to develop individualized light therapy and chronotherapeutics treatment plans from case examples and videos. The light therapy reference manual entitled “Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders: A Clinician's Manual for Light and Wake Therapy 2nd, Revised Edition,” authored by Anna Wirz-Justice, Francesco Benedetti and Michael Terman will be provided to each workshop registrant.
Agenda
| Friday, March 31, 2023 | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration - Breakfast |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Overview of Bright Light Therapy for the Management of Mood Disorders: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Nonseasonal Major Depression and Bipolar Depression
|
| 10:00am – 11:00am |
Circadian Rhythms, Phase Shifts, and Putative Mechanisms of Response to Light Therapy
|
| 11:00am – 11:15am |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15am – 12:00pm |
Perinatal Mood Disorders: Bright Light Therapy in Reproductive Psychiatry
|
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00pm – 4:00pm |
Bright Light Therapy Skills Building WorkshopDevelopment of Individualized Management Plans |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm |
Case Example 1 Utilizing Bright Light Therapy to Manage Delayed Sleep Phase and Improve Sleep Disturbance in Patients with Mood Disorders. (NG/DKS) |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm |
Case Example 2 Application of Bright Light Therapy for the Management of Perinatal Major Depression (KLW) |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm |
Case Example 3 Challenges in the Management of Bipolar Disorder: Evidence Based Strategies that Utilize Bright Light Therapy and Novel Chronotherapeutics in Bipolar Depression. (DKS) |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Q and A (all speakers) |
| 4:30pm |
Adjourn |
Speakers
Dorothy Sit, MD
- Conference Director and Speaker
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Perinatal Mental Health Fellowship and Medical Director, Obstetrics and Psychiatry Compass Collaborative Care
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
- Past President of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms. SLTBR.org
Namni Goel, PhD
- Professor and Director for Adult Chronobiology Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center
- Director of Adult Chronobiology and Sleep Medicine, Biological Rhythms Research Laboratory
- Professor, Rush Graduate College
- President of the Sleep Research Society
Katherine L Wisner, MD, MS
- Norman and Helen Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Director, Asher Center for the Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Past President Marce International and North American Marce Societies for Perinatal Mental Illness