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Michael Terman

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#3351

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#1275

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Clinical Psychology

#338

World Rank

#343

Historical Rank

#119

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PhD Psychology Columbia University
Bachelors Psychology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Terman is an American psychologist best known for his work in applying the biological principles of the circadian timing system to psychiatric treatments for depression and sleep disorders. This subspecialty is known as Chronotherapeutics.

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Light therapy for seasonal affective disorder. A review of efficacy. (1989) (492)
Prevalence of seasonal affective disorder at four latitudes (1990) (478)
Light Therapy for Seasonal and Nonseasonal Depression: Efficacy, Protocol, Safety, and Side Effects (2005) (472)
Food availability and daily biological rhythms (1980) (356)
Circadian time of morning light administration and therapeutic response in winter depression. (2001) (347)
A controlled trial of timed bright light and negative air ionization for treatment of winter depression. (1998) (321)
Feeding schedules and the circadian organization of behavior in the rat (1980) (312)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (264)
Chronotherapeutics (light and wake therapy) in affective disorders (2005) (233)
An open trial of morning light therapy for treatment of antepartum depression. (2002) (195)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (185)
The Visual Input Stage of the Mammalian Circadian Pacemaking System: I. Is There a Clock in the Mammalian Eye? (1991) (169)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (153)
Randomized clinical trial of bright light therapy for antepartum depression: preliminary findings. (2004) (151)
Jet lag: clinical features, validation of a new syndrome-specific scale, and lack of response to melatonin in a randomized, double-blind trial. (1999) (151)
Evolving applications of light therapy. (2007) (149)
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of light therapy for antepartum depression. (2011) (149)
Bright light therapy: side effects and benefits across the symptom spectrum. (1999) (137)
Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders: A Clinician's Manual for Light and Wake Therapy (2009) (136)
Ophthalmologic examination of patients with seasonal affective disorder, before and after bright light therapy. (1995) (129)
Efficacy of brief, intense light exposure for treatment of winter depression. (1990) (125)
Predictors of response and nonresponse to light treatment for winter depression. (1996) (121)
Circadian organization of food intake and meal patterns in the rat (1981) (120)
Light therapy for bipolar disorder: a case series in women. (2007) (119)
Controlled trial of bright light and negative air ions for chronic depression (2005) (110)
Rod outer segment disk shedding in rats with lesions of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (1993) (104)
Short-Wavelength Sensitivity of the Human Circadian System to Phase-Advancing Light (2005) (101)
Adjunctive Bright Light Therapy for Bipolar Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial. (2017) (99)
Light therapy. (1998) (98)
Dawn and dusk simulation as a therapeutic intervention (1989) (96)
Controlled trial of naturalistic dawn simulation and negative air ionization for seasonal affective disorder. (2006) (92)
A Circadian Pacemaker for Visual Sensitivity? a (1985) (77)
The Visual Input Stage of the Mammalian Circadian Pacemaking System: II. The Effect of Light and Drugs on Retinal Function (1991) (72)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (69)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (68)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (65)
Twilights Widen the Range of Photic Entrainment in Hamsters (2002) (64)
Experimental design and measures of success in the treatment of winter depression by bright light. (1990) (61)
The Human Circadian Pacemaker Can See by the Dawn's Early Light (2000) (61)
Light treatment for sleep disorders: Consensus report .6. Shift work (1995) (59)
Photopic and scotopic light detection in patients with seasonal affective disorder and control subjects (1999) (59)
Daily Meal Anticipation: Interaction of Circadian and Interval Timing a (1984) (57)
Is seasonal affective disorder a variant of atypical depression? Differential response to light therapy (1990) (57)
Brightening Depression (2004) (56)
Are deficient retinal photoreceptor renewal mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of winter depression? (1990) (53)
Bright light therapy in focus: lamp emission spectra and ocular safety. (1996) (53)
Concurrent variation of response bias and sensitivity in an operant-psychophysical test (1972) (52)
Light treatment for sleep disorders: Consensus report .7. Jet lag (1995) (52)
Controlled trial of safety and efficacy of bright light therapy vs. negative air ions in patients with bipolar depression (2012) (51)
The timing of phototherapy: effects on clinical response and the melatonin cycle. (1987) (51)
Treatment of seasonal affective disorder with a high-output negative ionizer. (1995) (47)
Tweaking the Human Circadian Clock with Light (1998) (46)
Light treatment for sleep disorders: Consensus report .3. Alerting and activating effects (1995) (44)
Twilight transitions promote circadian entrainment to lengthening light-dark cycles. (1996) (42)
Circadian rhythm of luminance detectability in the rat (1979) (41)
Discrimination of auditory intensities by rats. (1970) (39)
Circadian feeding and drinking rhythms in the rat under complete and skeleton photoperiods (1983) (39)
Light treatment for sleep disorders: Consensus report .5. Age-related disturbances (1995) (37)
Chronotherapeutics (light and wake therapy) as a class of interventions for affective disorders. (2012) (36)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report (1995) (36)
Circadian Rhythm of Brain Self-Stimulation Behavior (1970) (35)
Photic Entrainment in Hamsters: Effects of Simulated Twilights and Nest Box Availability (1996) (34)
Light therapy for depressive disorders: indications and efficacy. (1997) (34)
Chronic fatigue syndrome and seasonal affective disorder: comorbidity, diagnostic overlap, and implications for treatment. (1998) (33)
Depressive symptomatology differentiates subgroups of patients with seasonal affective disorder (2002) (32)
Circadian Rhythm Phase Advance with Dawn Simulation Treatment for Winter Depression (2010) (31)
One‐week light treatment of winter depression near its onset: The time course of relapse (1994) (29)
Much Ado About…A Moody Clock (2013) (28)
Exposure to bright light and the concurrent use of photosensitizing drugs. (1992) (28)
Detection of brief tones in noise by rats. (1970) (25)
Splitting of circadian rhythms in the rat (1979) (25)
Control of the rat's circadian self-stimulation rhythm by light-dark cycles (1975) (24)
Problems and Prospects for use of Bright Light as a Therapeutic Intervention (1993) (23)
Effects of twilights on circadian entrainment patterns and reentrainment rates in squirrel monkeys (1996) (22)
Circadian Phase-Response Curves for Simulated Dawn and Dusk Twilights in Hamsters (1996) (21)
Effects of illumination level on the rat's rhythmicity of brain self-stimulation behavior (1980) (20)
Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders : Consensus Report . IV . Sleep Phase and Duration Disturbances (2006) (20)
Control of the rat's sniffing behavior by response-independent and dependent schedules of reinforcing brain stimulation (1975) (19)
Discrimination of brightness differences by rats with food or brain-stimulation reinforcement. (1968) (19)
Hypomania interview guide (including hyperthymia): Retrospective assessment version (High‐R) (1999) (18)
Does light therapy present an ocular hazard? (1992) (15)
Introduction: Task Force Report on Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders (1995) (15)
Chapter 121 – Light Therapy (2005) (15)
Latency differentiation of hits and false alarms in an operant-psychophysical test. (1973) (15)
Effects of a dawn-dusk simulation on circadian rest-activity cycles, sleep, mood and well-being in dementia patients (2019) (14)
Dimensions of temperament and bright light response in seasonal affective disorder (2003) (14)
Outpatient triple chronotherapy for bipolar depression: case report. (2012) (14)
Seasonal Affective Disorder And its Treatments (1998) (14)
Light on Sleep (1997) (14)
Some temporal properties of intracranial self-stimulation. (1970) (11)
Improvement of absolute pitch naming (1965) (11)
Review: light therapy is an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder (2006) (10)
Comparison of yes-no and latency measures of auditory intensity discrimination. (1979) (9)
Summer mood in winter depressives: Validation of a structured interview (1999) (9)
Blue in the face. (2009) (8)
Personalizing the Large-Enrollment Course (1978) (7)
Rate of intracranial self-stimulation as a function of stimulus waveform and intensity (1966) (7)
Immune Response to Visible Light Treatment of SAD Patients (1992) (6)
New perspectives on techniques for the clinical psychiatrist: Brain stimulation, chronobiology and psychiatric brain imaging (2008) (6)
Chapter 149 – Light Therapy (2011) (5)
Lick Rate and the Circadian Rhythm of Water Intake in the Rat: Effects of Deuterium Oxide a (1984) (5)
Circadian functions and clinical applications of dawn simulation (1998) (5)
Commentary on "Blue-blocking glasses as additive treatment for mania: a randomized placebo-controlled trial". (2016) (3)
The efficacy of melatonin in the treatment of jet lag (1998) (3)
Charge~Coupled Devices and Applications (1974) (3)
Light Therapy and Risk of Hypomania, Mania, or Mixed State Emergence: Response to Benedetti et al. (2018) (3)
Phase locked loop: an application in temperature telemetry and a method for its evaluation. (1974) (2)
Chronobiology in Everyday Life (2009) (2)
The Visually Impaired: More Sleep Disturbances, More Depression (2009) (2)
Light and Wake Therapy for Older Patients (2009) (1)
Endogenous and Exogenous Melatonin (2009) (1)
Clinical Handbook for the Management of Mood Disorders: Chronotherapeutics (2013) (1)
72. Light Therapy for Bipolar Disorder: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Bright White versus Dim Red Light for Bipolar Depression (2017) (1)
Toward optimal health: the experts discuss seasonal affective disorder. Interview by JG Meisler. (2001) (1)
Reset Your Inner Clock: The Drug-Free Way to Your Best-Ever Sleep, Mood, and Energy (2013) (1)
Internal night. (2001) (1)
Individual Chronotherapeutic Elements: Light, Wake Therapy and Sleep Phase Advance (2009) (1)
Practical Details for Light Therapy (2009) (1)
Practical Details for Wake Therapy (2009) (1)
Q Is light therapy an effective therapy for seasonal affective disorder and non-seasonal depression? (2006) (0)
Learning to Report a Stimulus. (1973) (0)
Psychiatric Treatment by Light to the Eyes (2019) (0)
Dependence of electrophysical properties on structure of vanadium dioxide films (1988) (0)
Title Page / Table of Contents / Foreword / Acknowledgements / List of Abbreviations (2009) (0)
Circadian rhythm of brain self-stimulation behavior: (666672011-164) (1969) (0)
Light Therapy for Children and Adolescents (2009) (0)
Integrative Chronotherapeutics: Combinations of Light, Wake Therapy and Sleep Phase Advance (2009) (0)
Columbia Jet Lag Scale (2017) (0)
Constant-force cable coupler and activity monitor for small unrestrained animals (1979) (0)
Range of Chronotherapeutic Indications (2009) (0)
Outpatient Treatment Strategies (2009) (0)
Enhanced: Tweaking the Human Circadian Clock with Light (1998) (0)
Highlights and abstracts of the fifteenth annual Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms virtual meeting 2003. (2003) (0)
DISCRIMINA TION OF A UDITORY INTENSITIES BY RATS1 (2005) (0)
Improvement of lead/acid batteries (LAB) with use of high electroconductive polymers (HECPs) (1994) (0)
Drugs That Affect Rhythms (Chronobiotics) (2009) (0)
The Rhythmic Steady State (And its Perturbations). (1984) (0)
18-3: Treatment for winter depression: Designs and efficacy (1997) (0)
Social Rhythm Therapy (2009) (0)
Seasonal effects on depression risk (EPDS>10) and suicidal symptoms in postpartum women (2011) (0)

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