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Transcranial Continuous and Pulse Near-Infrared Light in Depression: a Placebo-Controlled Study (ELATED-3).
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Transcranial Light Therapy and Sham Transcranial Light Therapy for Depression and Major Depressive Disorder. Completed, enrolled 49 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
Transcranial Light Therapy involves non-invasive and invisible beams of light that increase energy metabolism in the brain. Transcranial light therapy has been found to promote brain metabolism which may help people with depression. The research team proposes a novel approach to treating depression by using transcranial light therapy.
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Transcranial light therapy penetrates the skin and brain using light energy; this makes transcranial light therapy noninvasive. Transcranial light therapy may activate under-stimulated brain regions.
The same device used for the actual transcranial light therapy is used as the sham device; The device, when set to sham, will mimic the actual transcranial light therapy; however, when set to sham the device does not emit skin and cranium penetrating light emitting diode light energy.