SOCIETY FOR LIGHT TREATMENT AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS
13th Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2001
Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm -- the Nordic Venice -- is the setting for
SLTBR's 13th annual meeting. On June 22 and 23, we celebrate Midsummer in
Sweden -- one of our biggest festivals, so it's a great time to visit
Stockholm. Our meeting site and welcome reception is the Nobel Forum, home for
the Nobel committees and the site where the Nobel Laureates in physiology and
medicine are chosen each year. The Forum is situated at the Campus of
Karolinska Institute, within walking distance of our two main hotels.
On Monday evening, we are invited to a reception in the
Town Hall where the Nobel banquet is held. Our own banquet, on Tuesday, will be
held at the Vasamuseum, the most popular museum in Scandinavia. An excellent
meeting program in such a beautiful location will make for a memorable
occasion. We look forward to welcoming you to Stockholm!
Bengt Kjellman, Chair
Local Organizing Committee
Members of Local Organizing Committee: Torbjorn Akerstedt, Mats Gillberg, Gunilla Markstrom, Maria Dahlstrom, Lennart Rabow and Bengt Kjellman, Chair
SCHEDULE
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Continuing Medical Education Program
2:00 - 5:00 PM Board Meeting
5:00 - 7:00 PM Board Dinner
7:00 - 9:00 PM Poster Session / Welcome Reception – Nobel Forum
Poster Discussant: Raymond Lam, MD
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD. Morning
Light Treatment Decreases Morning Agitation.
Maria R. Corral, MD. Bright Light Treatment of
Postpartum Depression.
Marijke Gordijn, PhD. Energizing
Effects of Ocular Light.
Katherine Hoppen, BPharm.
The Effects Of One, Two And Four Hours Of Bright White Light on Alertness,
Performance And Melatonin.
Eric Lainey, MD. A Controlled Evaluation Of Lumino®, A
Portable Head-Mounted Light Delivery System, In Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Raymond Lam, MD. Effects
of Catecholamine Depletion with Alpha-Methyl-Para-Tyrosine in Patients with SAD
in Summer Remission.
Arne Lowden, PhD. Carbohydrate vs
High Fat Meal – Effects on Wakefulness, Energy Expenditure and Metabolism
During a 24 H Wake Period.
Jennifer Martin. Does Light Therapy Improve
Depression In Severe Alzheimer’s Disease?
Sheila Patton, MD. Seasonality of
Symptoms in Women with Postpartum Depression.
Melanie Ruger. Acute
And Phase Shifting Effects Of Ocular And Extra-Ocular Light On Body Temperature
And Sleepiness In Humans.
Bjorn-Erik Thalen, MD. Clinical And Neuroendocrinological Studies of the
Effect of Light Treatment In Seasonal and Nonseasonal Depression.
Anna Wirz-Justice, PhD. Dawn -
Dusk Simulation In Alzheimer's Disease Patients With Disturbed Circadian
Rest-Activity Cycles.
Michael Young, PhD. Measuring
Seasonality.
Michael Young, PhD. Patterns of
Symptom Remission in SAD.
8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration; Continental Breakfast; Corporate Exhibits
9:00 - 9:15 AM Welcome: Sonia
Ancoli-Israel, Bengt Kjellman and Barbara Parry
9:15 - 10:15 AM ALPCO Buhlman Distinguished Lecturer
Jo Arendt, PhD: Visions
from Antarctica
10:15 - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break, Corporate Exhibits
10:45 -1l:00 AM SLTBR Young Investigator Award and
Research Presentation
Sponsored by Apollo Light
Systems
Erin Michalak, PhD: Seasonal Affective
Disorder, Negative Life Events and Social Support: Evidence of an Association in
a Community Sample
11:00 - Noon Oral
Presentations I: Seasonal Affective Disorder
Chairs: Johan Beck-Friis, MD, PhD and Mats Gillberg
Paul H. Desan.PhD, MD. A
Controlled Trial Of Extraocular Light For Winter Depression
Kathelijne M. Koorengevel, MD. Influence
of the Sleep-Wake Cycle And the Circadian Pacemaker On The Variation Of Mood In
Winter Depression.
Rigmor Stain-Malmgren, PhD. Platelet
Serotonin Transporter Density In Symptom-free and Depressed Patients with SAD.
Michael Terman, PhD. Morningness-Eveningness,
Circadian Phase and the Timing of Sleep in Patients with Seasonal Affective
Disorder
Noon - 1:30 PM Lunch break, on your own; Corporate Exhibits
1:30 -
3:30 PM Symposium: Mechanisms of Light Therapy in SAD
Chair: Anna Wirz-Justice, PhD
Robert Levitan, MD: Enhancement
of Energetic Arousal and Relationship to ADHD
Alex Neumeister, MD: Catecholaminergic
Mechanisms
Michael Terman, PhD: Phase-shifting
Mechanisms
Dan Oren, MD: Photoreceptors
3:30 - 5:00 PM SLTBR Business Meeting
6:00 PM Reception at Town Hall
9:00 - 10:00 AM Oral Presentations II: Biological Rhythms
Chairs: Arne Lowden and Bjorn-Erik
Thalen
Konstantin
V. Danilenko, MD. Is The Sleep-Wake Cycle Able To Entrain Human Circadian
Rhythms Independent Of Light?
Anna Wirz-Justice, PhD. Increased Melatonin 1a-Receptor Immunoreactivity in
Hippocampus and Cerebral Arteries Of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
Shawn Youngstedt. Circadian
Phase-Response Curves for Exercise and Bright Light
Rixt F. Riemersma. Indirect
Bright Light Therapy Decreases Sleep-Fragmentation In Institutionalized
Demented Elderly
10:00 - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break, Corporate Exhibits
10:30 - 12:30 PM Symposium: Light Treatment of Non-seasonal
Depression
Chair: Bengt Kjellman, MD
Alexander Neumeister, MD. TBA
Jan Prasko. TBA
Benedikt Bloching, MD: Bright
Light Stabilizes the Antidepressive Effect of Late Partial Sleep Deprivation
Francesco Benedetti, MD. Light
Treatment Effects in Bipolar Disorder.
Dan Kripke, MD. Evaluating Light
Treatment Effects.
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch break, on your own; Corporate
Exhibits
2:00 - 3:00 PM Keynote Speaker
Tom Wehr, MD: Does a Durational
Melatonin Signal Induce Winter Depression?
3:00 - 3:30 PM Refreshment Break; Corporate Exhibits
3:30 - 5:30 PM Symposium: Light and Work
Chair:
Torbjorn Akerstedt
Arne
Lowden: Light Treatment of Shift Workers
Bjorn
Bjorvatn: Light Treatment of Shift Workers on Oil Rigs
Josephine Arendt: Work Patterns
and Light
Torbjorn
Laike: Lighting and Health in the Work Environment
Alfred
J. Lewy: Melatonin as a Circadian Phase-resetter for Nurses who Work Seven
nights every other Week
7:00 PM Banquet at the Vasamuseum
Keynote Speaker
Lennart Wetterberg, MD. The
History of Light Treatment
8:00 - 10:00 AM Oral Presentations III. Photobiology
Chairs: Lennart Wetterberg, MD and
Torbjorn Akerstedt, PhD
George C. Brainard, PhD. Action
Spectrum for Melatonin Regulation: Evidence for a Novel Circadian
Photoreceptor.
Julian S. Smith. Illumination of
Upper and Middle Visual Fields: Equivalent Suppression of Melatonin in Elderly
Volunteers.
Katherine E. Hoppen. The Effects
of Spectral Composition of Light on Alertness, Performance and Melatonin.
Namni Goel, PhD. Bright Light and
Negative Ion Treatment in Patients with Chronic Depression.
10:00 - 10:15 AM Refreshment Break, Corporate Exhibits
10:15 - 12:15 PM Symposium: Genetic Vulnerability in SAD: Phenotype Definition
and Candidate Gene Analysis
Chair:
Robert Levitan, MD
Carolina Johansson: Genetic
Studies of SAD and Seasonality
Matthaeus Willeit: Serotonin Transporter Promoter Gene Polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in Seasonal Affective Disorder
Timo Partonen, MD: Hypothesis-Based
Genotyping of Winter SAD
Robert Levitan, MD: Novel
Endophenotypes for the Genetic Study of SAD
End of Scientific Program
Continuing Medical Education Program (additional course fee applies)
Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institute, Wednesday, June 27, 2001
The Basics of
Light Therapy
Accredited
through the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
1:30 - 1:30 PM Registration
Timo T.
Partonen, MD, PhD, Dept of Mental Health & Alcohol Research,
Mannerheimintie, Finland
SAD: Epidemiology & Contributing
Geophysical Factors
Alfred J. Lewy, MD, PhD, Oregon
Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Treating Body Clock Sleep & Mood
Disorders Using Bright Light and Melatonin
Bengt F. Kjellman, MD, Department of
Psychiatry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Indications and Practical Aspects of
Light Therapy
End of Program