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What is Dark Therapy (Controlled Light)?

Dark therapy is an experimental treatment, especially in bipolar disorder, which involves eliminating all light in the subject's environment, for a period of six to sixteen hours per day, in combination with a regular sleep schedule

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Migraine headaches 1 0
Cluster headaches 1 0
Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder 1 1 Efficacy_moderate

See all 3 patients currently using Dark Therapy (Controlled Light)

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Schedules

  15minutes as needed 30minutes as needed 3 hr daily 12 hr daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Dark Therapy (Controlled Light)

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Dark Therapy (Controlled Light)

Always
 0 0%
Usually
 1 100%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Dark Therapy (Controlled Light)

Very
 1 100%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Dark Therapy (Controlled Light)

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

Report created on May 27, 2012.