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Bright light therapy-induced improvements of mood, cognitive functions and cerebellar functional connectivity in subthreshold depression: A randomized controlled trial.
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- Gut microbiota and metabolic characteristics in subthreshold depression based on multi-omics.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Two subtypes of major depressive disorder are identified from individualized gray matter morphological abnormalities in a large multi-site dataset.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Improvements in depression symptomatology in a sample of undergraduate students: a pre-post Balint group intervention study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Reduced neural suppression at occipital cortex in subthreshold depression.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Research progress on the neural mechanism of light therapy improving cognitive function in depression: from retinal projections to neuroplasticity.Frontiers in neurologyReview
- Neuroimaging signatures and a deep learning modeling for early diagnosing and predicting non-pharmacological therapy success for subclinical depression comorbid sleep disorders in college students.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Background: The efficacy of bright light therapy (BLT) in ameliorating depression has been validated. The present study is to investigate the changes of depressive symptoms, cognitive function and cerebellar functional connectivity (FC) following BLT in individuals with subthreshold depression (StD). Method: Participants were randomly assigned to BLT group ( Results: After 8-week BLT treatment, individuals with StD showed improved depressive symptoms and attention/vigilance cognitive function. BLT also increased sFC between the right cerebellar lobule IX and left temporal pole, and decreased sFC within the cerebellum, and dFC between the right cerebellar lobule IX and left medial prefrontal cortex. Moreover, the fusion of sFC and dFC at baseline could predict the improvement of attention/vigilance in response to BLT. Conclusions: The current study identified that BLT improved depressive symptoms and attention/vigilance, as well as changed cerebellum-DMN connectivity, especially in the cerebellar-frontotemporal and cerebellar internal FC. In addition, the fusion features of sFC and dFC at pre-treatment could serve as an imaging biomarker for the improvement of attention/vigilance cognitive function after BLT in StD.
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