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In a recent interview, iHCDP director Prof. Dr. Christian Cajochen explains how seasonal depression can occur and what can help those affected.

The German-language article, entitled “Light therapy alleviates depression and low mood in the dark season,” was published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on Saturday, 27th November 2022.

On 6th October 2022, the iHCDP scientific advisory board met for the first time in Basel. Thank you to advisory board members Prof. Sara Montagenese, Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Scartezzini, and Prof. Dr. Michael Bach for visiting us at the Centre for Chronobiology and giving valuable feedback on iHCDP activities!

What does light mean to someone who can’t see it? How does not perceiving light via the eyes affect the circadian clock and sleep?

We are very excited to share the video of our interview with Ms. Yvonn Séraphine Scherrer, which addresses these questions and more.

We are excited to welcome some new members to the team!

We are very pleased that the iHCDP is featured in an article in Uni Basel News! For the article, iHCDP members Dr. Mirjam Münch and Dr. Miriam Ries were interviewed.

Today marks the one year anniversary of the iHCDP launch on 1st September 2021. We’re looking forward to even more research and collaboration next year!

We are very excited to share a new Outlook article published in Nature, “Can resetting the body clock help with depression?”, which explores the link between circadian and mental health.

Congratulations to Corrado Garbazza for winning this year’s Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Merit Award for his talk “Bright Light Therapy is Effective and Safe in Treating Perinatal Depression: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial” at the SRBR 2022 Conference in Amelia Island, Florida!

The iHCDP was well represented at this year’s SLTBR Conference. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms was held in Manchester from 23 – 25 June 2022, with the theme “Light and the Circadian Clock – from Bench to Bedside”.

We are excited to announce our Circadian Data Hub for storing and sharing research data, which will be developed by our newly-recruited data scientist Doris Lindörfer based at TU Munich. Welcome to the team!