The Prevalence of Seasonal Affective Disorder Is Low Among Descendants of Icelandic Emigrants in Canada

Magnússon, Andrés; Axelsson, J.

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1993.01820240031004

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“…Genetic type, gender and age are found to matter in SAD prevalence. For instance, Asians are more prone to summer-type SAD (Han et al, 2000;Ito et al, 1992) while for Caucasians it is more common to suffer from winter-type SAD (Magnússon & Axelsson, 1993;Soriano et al, 2007). Also, the highest propensity for SAD is found in women and younger individuals, compared with men and older individuals (Hedge & Woodson, 1996).…”

Section: Photoperiod Mood and Risk Aversionmentioning

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Seasonal affective disorder and the Romanian stock market

Murgea

2016

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Section: Photoperiod Mood and Risk Aversionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seasonal affective disorder and the Romanian stock market

Murgea

2016

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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“…These populations may, therefore, represent the best opportunity to assess the mental health of circumpolar peoples prior to the adoption of a more Western lifestyle, because careful scientific studies of mental health of past circumpolar populations is lacking (80,91). Low rates of SAD in circumpolar peoples may also have a genetic component (93).…”

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Diet and mental health in the Arctic: is diet an important risk factor for mental health in circumpolar peoples? - a review

McGrath-Hanna¹,

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Tavernier

et al. 2003

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Background. The people living in Arctic and Subarctic environments have adapted to cold temperatures, short growing seasons, and low precipitation, but their traditional ways are now changing due to increased contact with Western society. The rapid alteration of circumpolar cultures has led to generational changes in diet from traditional foods to the processed groceries common in modern stores. Objectives. Develop a link between changing traditional diets and mental health that may have substantial consequences for circumpolar peoples. Methods. Review of English language literature pertaining to the northern circumpolar environments of the world that consist of the Arctic and Subarctic areas. Electronic resources such as ISI Web of Science and PubMed were utilized, using keywords such as arctic, circumpolar, diet, omega-3 fatty acids, mental health, seasonal affective disorder, and suicide. In addition, we used the cited references of obtained articles and the extensive University of Alaska Fairbanks library collections to identify additional publications that were not available from the electronic resources. The years covered were not restricted to any particular period, although 83% of the sources were published in the last 16 years. Conclusion. The change in traditional diets has already led to increased health problems, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, while the mental health of circumpolar peoples has also declined substantially during the same time period. The decline in mental health is characterized by increased rates of depression, seasonal affective disorder, anxiety, and suicide, that now often occur at higher rates than in lower-latitude populations. Studies in non-circumpolar peoples have shown that diet can have profound effects on neuronal and brain development, function, and health. Therefore, we hypothesize that diet is an important risk factor for mental health in circumpolar peoples.

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“…Epidemiologische Befunde sprechen dafür, dass einer SAD eine individuelle genetische Vulnerabilität zugrunde liegt [28].Außerdem konnte in Genetikstudien gezeigt werden, dass SAD-Patienten an der Steuerungsregion des Serotonintransporters (5-HTTLPR) häufi-ger das kurze Allel aufweisen [34]. Da aber möglicherweise ein exogener Lichtmangel die Manifestation einer SAD triggert [9,10,43], wurden schon früh Untersuchungen über die Prävalenz und klinische Ausprägung in unterschiedlichen geographischen Regionen und Populationen durchgeführt [4,7,11,20,29,30,31,32,45,53].…”

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Saisonal abhängige Depression in zwei deutschsprachigen Universitätszentren: Bonn, Wien Klinische und demographische Charakteristika

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Six hundred ten patients with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) were diagnosed and treated at the university hospitals for psychiatry in Bonn, Germany (1989-1992) and Vienna, Austria (1993-2001). The aim of this study was to compare our sample with other SAD populations in the literature and to investigate differences between the two study locations. We found female:male sex ratios of 5.0:1.0 in unipolar depressives and 1.5:1.0 in patients with bipolar affective disorder. Of our patients, 21.7% suffered from bipolar II disorder, and 1.3% were diagnosed as having bipolar I. Our patients obtained a mean global seasonality score (GSS) of 15.4. Women had a higher GSS than men (t = 2.127, P = 0.035), and Viennese patients had higher scores than patients in Bonn (t = 3.104, P = 0.002). Totals of 66.3% of all patients suffered from atypical depression and 17.8% from melancholic depression. Patients with atypical depression were more frequent in Vienna, whereas patients with melancholic depression predominated in Bonn (chi 2 = 54.952, df = 2, P < 0.001). The demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients described in this article confirm the findings of other epidemiological investigations obtained in non-German-speaking samples.

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The Prevalence of Seasonal Affective Disorder Is Low Among Descendants of Icelandic Emigrants in Canada

Cited by 90 publications

References 5 publications

Seasonal affective disorder and the Romanian stock market

Seasonal affective disorder and the Romanian stock market

Diet and mental health in the Arctic: is diet an important risk factor for mental health in circumpolar peoples? - a review

Saisonal abhängige Depression in zwei deutschsprachigen Universitätszentren: Bonn, Wien Klinische und demographische Charakteristika

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