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Medicine's Eileen Anderson discusses teens and seasonal affective disorder

Media | February 25, 2026 | Story by: Editorial Staff
Media Expert: Eileen Anderson

Teen behaviors seen as ‘normal’ may indicate seasonal affective disorder

ideastream: Eileen Anderson, the Anne Templeton Zimmerman MD Professor in Bioethics, explained what adolescents are going through mentally with the winter being so cold and what they can do about it. "Some of the things that are really good to do for seasonal affective disorder, they're actually really good for everybody to do, whether it's checking your vitamin D levels or making sure that you get some kind of hit of bright light, particularly in the morning,” said Anderson.

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