Abstract
Seasonal affective disorder syndrome (SADS), a variant of atypical depression, is characterized by both affective and appetitive disturbances. Each fall these patients experience depressed mood, decreased energy, lowered interest, difficulty concentrating, and hypersomnia; moreover, they display increased appetite, carbohydrate craving, and weight gain. In spring time, with increasing day length, these symptoms abate, and the patients feel better and become hypomanic (Rosenthal et al. 1984).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Clayton P (1983) Bipolar illness. In: Psychiatric update, vol. 2: iv. American Psychiatric Association, pp 267–293
Fernstrom J, Wurtman R (1972) Physiological regulation by plasma amino acids. Science 178: 414–416
O’Rourke D, Wurtman J, Brzezinski A (1987) Serotonin implicated in etiology of seasonal affective disorder. Psychopharmacol Bull 23: 3
Rosenthal N, Sack D, Gillin C, Lewy A (1984) Seasonal affective disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 41: 72–80
Rosenthal N, Sack D, Carpenter C (1985) Antidepressant effects of light in seasonal affective disorder. Am J Psychiatry 142 (2): 163–170
Wurtman J, Wurtman R (1979) Drugs that enhance serotoninergic transmission diminish elective carbohydrate craving by rats. Life Sci 24: 895–904
Wurtman J, Wurtman R (1981) Suppression of carbohydrate consumption as snacks anorectic agents: mechanism of action and of tolerance. Raven, New York, pp 169–182
Wurtman J, Wurtman R, Mark S, Tsay R (1985) d-Fenfluramine selectively suppresses carbohydrate snacking by obese subjects. Int J Eat Dis 4(1): 89–99
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1988 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
O’Rourke, D., Wurtman, J.J., Wurtman, R.J. (1988). Serotonin Implicated in the Etiology of Seasonal Affective Disorder with Carbohydrate Craving. In: Pirke, K.M., Vandereycken, W., Ploog, D. (eds) The Psychobiology of Bulimia Nervosa. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73267-6_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73267-6_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-18670-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-73267-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive