News tagged with winter blues

Winter blues affect many

Q&A with Dr. Jeffrey Meyer of psychiatry and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gerbils also get the winter blues

December 21 -- the date of the winter solstice -- marks the shortest day of the year. Many people may find themselves wanting to spend more time on the couch and less time with friends -- one of the effects ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Medical Minute: Don't be SAD over winter blues

Sunlight and seasonal changes have a great impact on human behavior. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression -- sometimes called the winter blues -- that follows a seasonal pattern and occurs at the same ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Winter blues see the light

(Medical Xpress) -- It happens every year — the shortened daylight hours of the winter months always seem to affect one’s mood. People of all ages can develop seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of clinical ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trial by fire: A landscape-scale experiment in restoring Ozark glades

A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blue marble 2012: Amazing high definition image of Earth

A new high-definition version of the ‘Blue Marble’ has been taken from the newest Earth observation satellite. The just-renamed Suomi NPP satellite took numerous images on January 4, 2012 and this ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 14

Study tests new treatments for the winter blues

If winter's long nights and cold weather have you feeling depressed, a new research study could lift your spirits. The study, lead by Janis Anderson, PH.D., an associate psychologist in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA sees repeating La Nina hitting its peak

(PhysOrg.com) -- La Niña, "the diva of drought," is peaking, increasing the odds that the Pacific Northwest will have more stormy weather this winter and spring, while the southwestern and southern United ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Review: Everybody's streaming Netflix, but what?

Netflix's streaming-video audience of more than 20 million subscribers has led many to label it a kind of digital TV network, and one that may grow into an HBO rival - if it's not already.

Technology / Business

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 7

How to see the best meteor showers of 2012: Tools, tips and 'save the dates'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you're watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting stars. Those streaks of light are really caused ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetic markers help feds enforce seafood regulations

New discoveries in "marine forensics" by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) will allow federal seafood agents to genetically test blue marlin to quickly and accurately determine ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread

(AP) -- A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his alpha male sire and a sibling ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Blooming ocean fronts

Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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