Pete A. Ensminger
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300088045
- eISBN:
- 9780300133523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300088045.003.0006
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter discusses seasonal affective disorder (SAD), its symptoms and physiological mechanisms, and its diagnosis using the” Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire,” epidemiology. It also ...
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This chapter discusses seasonal affective disorder (SAD), its symptoms and physiological mechanisms, and its diagnosis using the” Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire,” epidemiology. It also looks at the therapeutic value of phototherapy in the treatment of SAD. Explaining the pathway of optic nerve signals from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus in the brain, this chapter describes research focused on the role of SCN, the circadian rhythm, and pineal hormones and serotonin neurotransmitters that cause SAD. Additionally, this chapter details studies correlating SAD with melatonin based on the fact that the latter regulates rhythms in animals and its secretion is regulated by light. This chapter further discusses a hypothesis based on experiments with drugs such as atenolol, propranolol, various antidepressant drugs, which emphasizes the role of melatonin, the serotonin system, and the circadian rhythm hypothesis of SAD.Less
This chapter discusses seasonal affective disorder (SAD), its symptoms and physiological mechanisms, and its diagnosis using the” Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire,” epidemiology. It also looks at the therapeutic value of phototherapy in the treatment of SAD. Explaining the pathway of optic nerve signals from the retina to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus in the brain, this chapter describes research focused on the role of SCN, the circadian rhythm, and pineal hormones and serotonin neurotransmitters that cause SAD. Additionally, this chapter details studies correlating SAD with melatonin based on the fact that the latter regulates rhythms in animals and its secretion is regulated by light. This chapter further discusses a hypothesis based on experiments with drugs such as atenolol, propranolol, various antidepressant drugs, which emphasizes the role of melatonin, the serotonin system, and the circadian rhythm hypothesis of SAD.
E. Douglas Bomberger
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199899296
- eISBN:
- 9780190268343
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199899296.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a ...
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Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in France and Germany establishing his career. Upon his return to the United States in 1888 he conquered American audiences with his dramatic Second Piano Concerto and won his way into their hearts with his poetic Woodland Sketches. Columbia University tapped him as their first professor of music in 1896, but a scandalous row with powerful university president Nicholas Murray Butler spelled the end of his career. MacDowell died a broken man four years later, but his widow Marian kept his spirit alive through the MacDowell Colony, which she founded in 1907 in their New Hampshire home, and which is today the oldest and one of the most influential, thriving artist colonies in the United States. Drawing on private letters that were sealed for fifty years after his death, this biography traces MacDowell's compelling life story, with new revelations about his Quaker childhood, his efforts to succeed in the insular German music world, his mysterious death, and his lifelong struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder. MacDowell's story is a timeless tale of human strength and weakness set in one of the most vibrant periods of American musical history, when optimism about the country's artistic future made anything seem possible.Less
Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in France and Germany establishing his career. Upon his return to the United States in 1888 he conquered American audiences with his dramatic Second Piano Concerto and won his way into their hearts with his poetic Woodland Sketches. Columbia University tapped him as their first professor of music in 1896, but a scandalous row with powerful university president Nicholas Murray Butler spelled the end of his career. MacDowell died a broken man four years later, but his widow Marian kept his spirit alive through the MacDowell Colony, which she founded in 1907 in their New Hampshire home, and which is today the oldest and one of the most influential, thriving artist colonies in the United States. Drawing on private letters that were sealed for fifty years after his death, this biography traces MacDowell's compelling life story, with new revelations about his Quaker childhood, his efforts to succeed in the insular German music world, his mysterious death, and his lifelong struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder. MacDowell's story is a timeless tale of human strength and weakness set in one of the most vibrant periods of American musical history, when optimism about the country's artistic future made anything seem possible.
