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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
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Subject: Re: The Black Dog
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 17:02:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 17:02:44 1986
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Keywords: water, slam-dunking, cabs, full-spectrum lights

STella Calvert talks about the mid-winter blues.

On the PBS series, _The Brain_, a case history was presented about
a middle aged woman who suffered from mid-winter depression.  Her
doctors theorized that her slowdown was triggered by the same
process that governs hibernation (or maybe estivation).  They set
up the sunlight machine in the woman's house.  Each morning, she
took a dose of extra daylight.  The treatment worked.  It seems
we are still chained to our evolutionary past.  Vestiges of the
old animal brain still govern much of our daily lives.  Sometimes
the neocortex loses the battle to the more primitive instincts
wired in to the older structures in the brain.

--Barry Kort   ...ihnp4!hounx!kort