The Weather Outside is Frightful: Depression & Cloudy Days
Yesterday’s issue of Environmental Health has an open access article by Shia T. Kent, et al, entitled “Effect of sunlight exposure on cognitive function among depressed and non-depressed participants: a REGARDS cross-sectional study.”
They looked at sunlight exposure for nearly 17,000 subjects from another depression study to determine if cognitive function was affected by gloomy days.
People with major depression were 2-1/2 times more likely to have impaired cognitive function during periods of reduced sunlight than were people without depression, independent of other factors.
I saw this first on Health Day.
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